SUMMARY Dolphin with Plasma 5.18.5 and 5.21.4: Comments, Ratings, Keywords not shown STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. In View > Setting (mode=Details) I added columns for comments and Ratings and Keywords 2. Those Values were defined for a folder and a file. 3. For both, the values are shown in properties. OBSERVED RESULT Now back to Dolphin > Details Mode, F5 to update. There are all three columns, but no text or rating ... EXPECTED RESULT To see the values that were defined and are visible in properties. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: MANJARO KDE Plasma Version: 5.21.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.81.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Thanks a lot for your effort!!
Have you disabled the baloo file indexer? It's required for these features to work and show up.
Thank you Nate, that's the issue. May be, it can be documented anywhere? Impressive low response time!!
Good Idea. I'll add a warning in the KCM so that you know what you'll be losing.
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/476
It may be more nuanced than that... Dolphin can read the tags, rating and comment from the filesystem extension attributes if .config/baloofilerc has "indexing-enabled" true (but irrespective of whether there's actually a baloo index). Bug 434565, extra details under #C7 Baloo indexes extension attributes (the tags, ratings and comments) with basic indexing (that is, without needing content indexing). Bug 417170 I'd say the workround in this case is to run baloo without full text indexing
Right, I only added the message for the case where indexing is entirely disabled, specifically to avoid having to make those sorts of distinctions.
Git commit bb06c15f0403e78f01982818aa05be8aeadc1afa by Nate Graham. Committed on 24/05/2021 at 13:54. Pushed by ngraham into branch 'master'. [kcms/baloo] Warn people what they're missing when they disable Baloo Otherwise users may not understand the trade-offs here and be confused when they find themselves missing features such as extended metadata display or tags throughout KDE software. FIXED-IN: 5.23 M +7 -0 kcms/baloo/package/contents/ui/main.qml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/commit/bb06c15f0403e78f01982818aa05be8aeadc1afa