Bug 499574

Summary: Further refine indexing behavior based on power profile and battery states, when available
Product: [Frameworks and Libraries] frameworks-baloo Reporter: Justin Zobel <justin>
Component: generalAssignee: baloo-bugs-null
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: kde, natalie_clarius, nate, tagwerk19
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
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Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description Justin Zobel 2025-02-06 02:57:08 UTC 
I'd like to see Powerdevil KCM given the ability to control Baloo indexing.

Baloo indexing uses precious power on mobile devices like laptops, phones and tablets.

Allowing the user to control how Baloo behaves on each power state would be great for power savings.

Defaults suggestion:
On mains power: Go nuts, index all the things
On battery: Limited indexing, filenames only, no content (I imagine content indexing requires the most power usage)
On low power: Baloo disabled entirely
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2025-02-19 16:44:22 UTC 
It already turns off all indexing while on battery power automatically. What more would you like it to do? I guess you do actually want it to do some indexing while on battery power?
Comment 2 tagwerk19 2025-02-20 13:35:51 UTC 
You could maybe pause deletion of records (when on battery). That's a lot of I/O, rewriting records in the index....