Baloo

Baloo is the file indexing and file search framework for KDE.

Mailing List: [email protected] (info page)

IRC Channel: #kde-baloo on freenode

Baloo focuses on providing a very small memory footprint along with with extremely fast searching.

Useful pages

• Architecture
• Baloo/Configuration
• Baloo/Debugging
• Baloo/NepomukPort
• Baloo/Tasks
• Baloo/XapianAlternatives
• Baloo/XapianProblems

Using Baloo

Baloo is not an application, but a daemon to index files. Applications can use the Baloo framework to provide file search results.

An intentionally limited number of settings are provided via the KDE System Settings "Desktop Search" icon. Other adjustments can be made directly to the configuration file.