> On May 3, 2012, 7:35 p.m., Mark Gaiser wrote: > > Let me first say that i have absolutely nothing to say about this. I do > > have an opinion about this though. > > I would not like this. If i'm searching i just want to search and certainly > > don't get a dialog just to confirm my search. > > > > Others might think differently though... Perhaps as an option but disabled > > by default. > > Kai Uwe Broulik wrote: > I guess you should introduce them to Nepomuk and explain them how to > efficiently tag their files and find them by their contents instead :P > > Andre Heinecke wrote: > Thanks for your feedback. I've argued about this with my admins, their > argumentation was "The users that know what they are doing just use find" > Their argumentation was: If i use an open razor blade i don't expect a > warning before I cut my throat. But if i use an electrical shaver i don't > expect it to cut my throat. > > > But I'll discard this patch, the warning is just annoying and would not > solve much. An option to include network file systems (disabled by default) > would be a better approach to this problem. > > Regards
Btw. nepomuk based file search is not going to be an option for company networks for a long time or ever. Imagine the Upgrade, every user indexes everything for themself,.. Afaik The semantic desktop as it is currently designed is for desktops and not for distributed environments. - Andre ----------------------------------------------------------- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/104826/#review13382 ----------------------------------------------------------- On May 2, 2012, 7:50 p.m., Andre Heinecke wrote: > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: > http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/104826/ > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > (Updated May 2, 2012, 7:50 p.m.) > > > Review request for KDE Base Apps. > > > Description > ------- > > In my company it regularly happens that some "non technical" person, e.g. a > secretary or a marketing guy tries to find a file he or she has no idea where > it is placed. > When they use kfind to search the complete file system without using locate > this pretty much means a DOS attack on our company network with loads of NFS > shares etc. > > Searching the complete filesystem is nearly always wrong but as users are > used to it from "Search my Computer" or other indexed search options they > might not realize it. > > This Patch adds a confirmation dialog if you want to search / or file:/// > recursively without using locate warning you that this might take a very long > time and is a resource intensive operation > > > Diffs > ----- > > kfind/kfinddlg.cpp 12b3b7e > kfind/kquery.h 39609f3 > > Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/104826/diff/ > > > Testing > ------- > > Compiled, tested with regular paths, as well as / and file:/// > > > Thanks, > > Andre Heinecke > >
