Bug 338170

Summary:	Dolphin Information panel invokes baloo_file_extractor (and consumes CPU and time) every time when selecting a file
Product:	[Applications] dolphin	Reporter:	Ukyoi <ukyoi>
Component:	panels: information	Assignee:	Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	pip.kde
Priority:	NOR
Version:	4.13.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Attachments:	This picture shows the problem quite well.

Description Ukyoi 2014-08-10 10:38:57 UTC

This bug is similar to this: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=284314 but this time it is baloo_file_extractor that consumes the resources.

When hover on a file with Information panel on, Dolphin will invoke baloo_file_extractor. This is not a problem on most of files but I have some huge PDFs that may be opened frequently. baloo_file_extractor spends about 5 minuites on each of them (parallelly) just because I hovered my mouse on them. Disabling baloo on System Settings is useless and it's really annoying. So I have to disable Information panel temporarily as a workaround.

Is it a bug or a kind of "features"? If it's designed to be, could someone explain what is so important that baloo have to index it totally just for showing it on Information Panel?

Thanks for reading this report.

Comment 1 Ukyoi 2014-08-10 10:39:45 UTC

Created attachment 88199 [details]
This picture shows the problem quite well.

Comment 2 Paul 2014-08-10 10:54:56 UTC

Related https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=336084 ?

Comment 3 Frank Reininghaus 2014-08-10 10:55:34 UTC

Thanks for the bug report. The Baloo team has fixed this issue in their 5.0 version. Dolphin's frameworks branch makes use of this already, and the fix will be available to all users as soon as there is the first stable Qt5/KF5-based release.

Please note that there is nothing we can do in Dolphin itself about this issue. Showing information about files inside the information panel is handled completely by Baloo.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 336084 ***

Comment 4 Frank Reininghaus 2014-08-10 10:56:28 UTC

(In reply to Paul from comment #2)
> Related https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=336084 ?

Yes, thanks for the hint Paul (I had also found it in the meantime and got a conflict notification when I sumitted my comment 3).