i found something interesting happening when using balooctl... Example: balooctl config includeFolders ls will show this on my system /home/userName/Documents/ /home/userName/Pictures/ /home/userName/Videos/ /home/userName/Music/ I can remove those directories individually with, e.g. balooctl config includeFolders rm /home/userName/Documents/ all is fine until i remove the last entry, then the next thing happening is that the list is filled again with those 4 entries mentioned above. For, me, this does not look like a sane default, especially when i try to override it...
Fedora patches baloo, blame them.
That's a poor excuse, fedora simply defaults to document-centric XDG dirs, though the implementation may leave something to be desired. At one time, kde/baloo upstream told me they'd likely move to this default too, but that was awhile ago.
In particular, any suggestions on how to better improve the implementation is welcome, https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/kf5-baloo/blob/master/f/baloo-5.67.0-baloofile_config.patch