[filelight] [Bug 489927] New: Tighter integration with Baloo: Use Baloo's index to speed up chart generation

[postix]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=489927

            Bug ID: 489927
           Summary: Tighter integration with Baloo: Use Baloo's index to
                    speed up chart generation
    Classification: Applications
           Product: filelight
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
                OS: Linux
            Status: REPORTED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: unassigned-bugs at kde.org
          Reporter: postix at posteo.eu
                CC: martin.sandsmark at kde.org
  Target Milestone: ---

If you have Baloo running on your system already and it has indexed _most_ of
the files, it would make much sense in my opinion to

1) use Baloo's index to gather files / the sum of their sizes 

and

2) for files and folders Baloo hasn't indexed yet (most likely because they
were excluded from the index), fallback to the original recursive search + as a
bonus update Baloo's filename / xattr index in the same step (excluding
excluded folders)

This way generating the charts could become way faster for larger file systems,
especially on slow devices (HDDs for instance) and you'd not need to build up
two separate indexes, which largely overlap.

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