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

[Aurélien COUDERC <libre@coucouf.fr>]

Hi,

Le jeudi 13 novembre 2025, 17:36:02 heure normale d’Europe centrale Celejar a écrit :
> 
> 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.

I think there’s a misunderstanding about what the "Not Running, 0% complete" tries to convey.
This message only means that the indexer is not running *at that particular time*, and the underlying meaning is that there’s nothing to do because indexing was already done.

The File indexing checkbox does enable and disable baloo in the same way as the balooctl command does.

So maybe we can close this bug ?


Happy hacking,
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Aurélien