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== balooctl ==
== balooctl ==


<code>balooctl</code> is a CLI command to perform certain operations on Baloo. The operations are indicated by '''arguments'''. All available arguments can be listed by issuing <code>balooctl --help</code> in terminal app, such as [[userbase:Konsole]].
<code>balooctl</code> is a CLI command to perform certain operations on Baloo. Enter <code>balooctl --help</code> in a terminal app such as [[userbase:Konsole]] to list its available subcommands.
 
To be noted, argument <code>checkDb</code> is only meant to be used by developers for debugging. All it does is to print some messages but not to sanitize the database. And the execution time grows exponentially with the number of indexed files (see [https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=380465#c5 Comment 5 under bug #380465]).

Revision as of 08:50, 10 June 2021

Help Konqi find what he wants!

Baloo is the file indexing and file search framework for KDE Plasma, with a focus on providing a very small memory footprint along with with extremely fast searching.

Ways to communicate

Mailing List: [email protected] (info page)
IRC Channel: #kde-devel on freenode
Phabricator project: https://phabricator.kde.org/project/view/261

Top bugs and feature requests

Bugs: https://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?bug_severity=critical&bug_severity=grave&bug_severity=major&bug_severity=crash&bug_severity=normal&bug_severity=minor&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=CONFIRMED&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&list_id=1629910&priority=VHI&priority=HI&product=frameworks-baloo&query_format=advanced

Feature requests: https://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?bug_severity=wishlist&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=CONFIRMED&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&list_id=1629911&priority=VHI&priority=HI&product=frameworks-baloo&query_format=advanced

Useful pages

Using Baloo

Baloo is not an application, but a daemon to index files. Applications can use the Baloo framework to provide file search results. For example, Dolphin's Content search can use Baloo.

KDE System Settings > File Search provides an intentionally limited number of settings. You can make additional adjustments in Baloo's configuration file.

balooctl

balooctl is a CLI command to perform certain operations on Baloo. Enter balooctl --help in a terminal app such as userbase:Konsole to list its available subcommands.