https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=470824
Bug ID: 470824
Summary: balooshow should indicate the type of a file
Classification: Frameworks and Libraries
Product: frameworks-baloo
Version: 5.106.0
Platform: Fedora RPMs
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: wishlist
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Target Milestone: ---
SUMMARY
You can search for files by type (`baloosearch --type audio Beatles`), but it's
not obvious what the types are.
If `balooshow` showed this type it would be easier to figure out what's going
on.
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Enable baloo indexing
2. In a terminal, `echo pointieststick > $HOME/baloo_test.txt`
3. `balooshow $HOME/baloo_test.txt`
OBSERVED RESULT
There's no indication what type of file it is.
EXPECTED RESULT
Showing the type would be useful, because it would guide you as to what to
search for with `baloosearch --type WHATGOESHERE pointeststick`
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma:
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.106.0
Qt Version: 5.15.9 on Wayland
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
The output of `baloosearch -x $HOME/baloo_test.txt` includes
Internal Info
Terms: Mplain Mtext T5 T8 X20-1 pointieststick
and the 'M' terms hint that the file type for baloosearch's --type option is
"text." But `--type plain` doesn't work, and this technique is useless for a
Open Document Format file, e.g. a .odt file has
Internal Info
Terms: Mapplication Moasis Mopendocument Mtext Mvnd ...
you can't use baloosearch --type to find .odt documents by any of these type
terms, you must use --type document. Using `kmimetypefinder to determine the
mime type of a file likewise may not match the type that baloo assigns.
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