Bug#1120628: baloo6: Disabling baloo by default results in a confusing user experience

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

Package: baloo6
Version: 6.18.0-1
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: celejar@gmail.com

I recently tried to get KDE/Plasma File Search working. Through the
KDE/Plasma UI, I enabled "File indexing" and set "Data to index: File
names and contents" - and nothing happened. The KDE interface status
line reported "Not Running, 0% complete", but gave no explanation as to
why the indexer wasn't running despite "File indexing" being enabled.

It took some web searching to learn that the KDE component that handles
indexing is something called baloo, and that the service's status can be checked
with "balooctl[6] status", and the service enabled and started with "balooctl[6]
enable / start". Since the KDE interface makes no mention of baloo and
the need to ensure that it's running, how is a normal user of the system
supposed to know this? (The KDE Help does mention that File Search
"internally uses a technology called Baloo to efficiently search through
the files," but it makes no mention of the fact that the service may be
disabled by one's distribution, or how to check its status and enable /
start it.)


-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
  APT prefers oldstable-security
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-security'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.16.12+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages baloo6 depends on:
ii  init-system-helpers  1.69
ii  kio6                 6.18.0-1
ii  libc6                2.41-12
ii  libkf6baloo6         6.18.0-1
ii  libkf6balooengine6   6.18.0-1
ii  libkf6configcore6    6.18.0-1
ii  libkf6coreaddons6    6.18.0-2
ii  libkf6crash6         6.18.0-1
ii  libkf6dbusaddons6    6.18.0-1
ii  libkf6filemetadata3  6.18.0-1
ii  libkf6i18n6          6.18.0-1
ii  libkf6idletime6      6.18.0-1
ii  libkf6kiocore6       6.18.0-1
ii  libkf6solid6         6.18.0-1
ii  libqt6core6t64       6.9.2+dfsg-3
ii  libqt6dbus6          6.9.2+dfsg-3
ii  libqt6gui6           6.9.2+dfsg-3
ii  libstdc++6           15.2.0-8

baloo6 recommends no packages.

baloo6 suggests no packages.

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