Review Request 125369: Baloo runner: look also for presentations/spreadsheets/text files

[Vishesh Handa]

> On Sept. 24, 2015, 11:50 p.m., Vishesh Handa wrote:
> > runners/baloo/baloosearchrunner.cpp, line 165
> > <https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/125369/diff/1/?file=405159#file405159line165>
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> >     Have a look at basicindexingjob.txt. We define that all Presentation and Spreadsheets are also Documents.
> >     
> >     For text, we specifically don't do that, as then we get source code as Documents. Maybe we can make another category caleld "Source Code" or something. I'm not sure, but just combining the two doesn't seem correct.
> >     
> >     Maybe others can chime in?
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> Igor Poboiko wrote:
>     Dammit, my fault. Sorry for the noise. I just noticed that sometimes KRunner don't look for presentations, so I thought the issue was here. And when I fixed it, it worked.
>     But it seems like the problem is with indexing; sometimes mimetype is not determined correctly. And it's not always reproducible. But that's another issue.
>     
>         # balooctl index test.ppt
>         Indexing /home/eol/test.ppt
>          -- indexing "/home/eol/test.ppt" mimetype "application/x-ole-storage"
>         File(s) indexed
>         # mimetype test.ppt
>         application/vnd.ms-powerpoint
>     
>     Regarding indexing of text files: I thought the issue was just due to performance of indexing; but now it doesn't index large text-files.
>     I mean, e.g. I have a lot of plain-text documents (which are not source codes, but are proper documents): those are mostly LaTeX files or just .txt files with some notes. I expected them to pop up during search.
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> Pinak Ahuja wrote:
>     That would me mainly because we skip text files larger than 10 mb, have a look at file/extractor/app.cpp
>     Maybe we can experiment with a different limit. Mimetype issue is something we should look into. I've seen audio files with .m4a extension showing mimetype as video in the index.
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> Igor Poboiko wrote:
>     No-no, that wasn't the case. My .tex-files are much smaller (several KBs), and "balooshow -x" shows that they are indexed properly. They just don't popup because of its type ("T8 Ttext" in index).
>     
>     The limit solution looks perfectly fine for me. I mean, I don't write files of size 10Mb+ by myself :) 
>     They are 99.99% are not documents but just some machine-generated junk (log-files, or something like that), and I don't want it to be indexed anyways.
>     But small text files might be useful for me. Especially if they are already indexed :)
>     
>     Talking about mimetypes: right, I had the same issue with mp4 audio-files too. But it seems to be an upstream issue, mimetype handling is shared-mime-database and Qt job...
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> Vishesh Handa wrote:
>     Ping? Can this be closed.
> 
> Igor Poboiko wrote:
>     It would be very useful for me if it would look for at least some of text files (.tex and .lyx files, to be more specific). At least under some new category ("Plain text files", etc). But that's clearly another issue, this can indeed be closed.

Alright. I'm discarding this.


- Vishesh


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On Sept. 24, 2015, 7:18 a.m., Igor Poboiko wrote:
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> (Updated Sept. 24, 2015, 7:18 a.m.)
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> Review request for Baloo and Plasma.
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> Repository: plasma-workspace
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> Description
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> Small usability improvement: since presentations, spreadsheets and text files are also documents (at least, that's what I expect :) ), search for them in KRunner when "documents" category is checked.
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> Diffs
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>   runners/baloo/baloosearchrunner.cpp 0023a11 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/125369/diff/
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> Testing
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> It just works: now I am able to find my LaTeX-files, various presentations, etc with KRunner.
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> Thanks,
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> Igor Poboiko
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