Bug 367682

Summary: Akonadi/Baloo/Whatever doesn't show PIM data on desktop searches
Product: [Frameworks and Libraries] Akonadi Reporter: eemantsal <infmtk>
Component: IndexerAssignee: kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: major CC: chrigi_1, dvratil, piedro.kulman
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Gentoo Packages   
OS: Linux   
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Description eemantsal 2016-08-22 18:20:58 UTC 
To be sincere I don't know if this is a bug or just happens to me due to some bad installation/configuration on my side, but I have asked in the forum 2 months ago and nobody has known what to answer, so I suppose it's time to ask here.

Ok, Akonadi is supposed to index all my PIM stuff, and Baloo is supposed to be able to find everything that is indexed, no? Well, when I launch Krunner and search for an email, typing a word or even a complete phras of its subject or body, or if I type the title of a note I have in Kjots, or a contact's name, or a calendar event I get no PIM related results, I only see documents and web bookmarks, no mails, notes nor Kaddressbook entries.
Searching works in the search box of Kmail, and in Kaddressbook, but Krunner does nothing with the supposedly indexed PIM data.
Is that a bug, or perhaps I missed some package during instalation?

On other side, I don't know well how that Akonadi-Baloo colaboration works, but could it have anything to do the fact that Baloo doesn't search in hidden folders and the PIM data are stored by default under .local? 

BTW, this is Akonadi 16.08.0, but the form doesn't have it among its options.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Launch Krunner.
2. Type some text you are sure is in some mail, note, calendar or contact card.
3.

Actual Results:  
No PIM results are shown. Only Documents, Internet bookmarks, images, folders, etc, that contain the typed text.

Expected Results:  
Notes, mails, calendars and contacts containing the search terms should be listed, like the stuff indexed by Baloo.
Comment 1 piedro 2019-04-06 10:11:08 UTC 
I do not think akonadi is still developed - it seems that none of the bugs gets any comments nor fixes... 

Sad, but if opensource projects create complex solutions like akonadi there has to be enough ressources for developers to maintain it. Otherwise simple solutions are to be preferred! 

Akonadi is a beast and I doubt that any new developer coming to KDE would have any interest in bug hunting akonadi.
Comment 2 Christophe Marin 2019-04-09 15:45:51 UTC 
(In reply to piedro from comment #1)
> I do not think [cut useless stuff]

Please refrain from posting unhelpful comments.
Comment 3 piedro 2019-04-09 21:24:38 UTC 
If it provokes someone after three years of inactivity - then it's helpful!
Comment 4 eemantsal 2019-09-23 17:21:12 UTC 
(In reply to Christophe Giboudeaux from comment #2)
> (In reply to piedro from comment #1)
> > I do not think [cut useless stuff]
> 
> Please refrain from posting unhelpful comments.

To me, knowing that other bugs aren't being fixed either so probably is true that Akonadi is not being maintained too much anymore, is an useful comment. I wish I had known before so I had saved on some time reporting some bugs and suggesting some features that will probably never be taken into account (I know that most probably not because of disdain from the devs but for lack of manpower), like this one (in september of 2019 Baloo keeps ignoring indexed PIM data). A pity. Let's hope that situation changes, well with Kube taking over well with new mantainers for KDEPIM.

Cheers.