SUMMARY When the indexing is running sometimes it will slow the desktop quite much. It is easy to see in the process overview that Baloo file extractors are running, but it would be great with some kind of notification or status icon when it is active. I think this could lessen the number of angry comments about this cool indexer. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. restart the baloo indexing (or add a lot of files to the indexed folder) 2. computer goes slow for a while OBSERVED RESULT No indication on why the computer currently slows down for user. EXPECTED RESULT Some kind of notification or icon, only showing when some indexing is done. Suggested content would be index size, nr of files indexed, total nr of files to index, current indexing file(s). ADDITIONAL FEATURES A link to the settings page for excluding files. A pause button on it (making it stay in the notifications), but if we assume it mostly works this shouldn't be needed.
I think it should rather not slow down the computer. The user shouldn't be aware, let alone be explicitly told, that this is happening imho.
*** Bug 409881 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
There's a "Status" line and "Pause button" in System Settings -> Search -> File Search In Neon User, 5.83.0. Patch done in April, see Bug 374474 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 374474 ***