https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=391252

Stefan Brüns <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #7 from Stefan Brüns <[email protected]> ---
Regarding files not found in hidden directories:

This is a design decision. Baloo is meant to help finding files the user has
created or received from another person (this includes downloading files from
the internet). Configuration files and the like are clearly not in this scope.

Many users are not even aware of hidden files/directories, and these are not
shown by default in e.g. dolphin. IMHO it would be quite awkward if these files
showed up during a search.

Files in hidden directories are only useful for power users/developers, which
are typically capable of using e.g. find and grep. These configuration files
are also typically in plain text format, so searching with grep works, while
formats like ODF, PDF, ... do not store text as plain text, these documents are
exemplary for the baloo scope.

Regarding the "log.txt" file, please file another bug report. This neither
matches the bug description (which has a number of implications: hard to find
when searching for it, bad reference/description when the bug has been
confirmed and fixed, ...) and does not obey the "One bug per bug report".

This may sound somewhat discouraging, but rest assured that bugs like the
second are definitely a concern for past as well as current developers.

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