On Thursday 08 January 2015 21:52:48 Ian Wadham wrote: > On 08/01/2015, at 9:40 PM, Vishesh Handa wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 7:39 AM, Ian Wadham <iandw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > - I don't think Windows has anything like Baloo or KWallet, but Apple > > > > OS X certainly has, and has had for years. We, on the KDE-Mac list, > > are starting to integrate KWallet and Apple's Keychain app, but > > Baloo > > is still an unknown quantity, esp. re how hard-wired it is into KDE > > apps. > > > > Side note: Windows has really good search capabilities. > > I have not seen or heard of them, and I go to a PC Users' Group regularly. > Which version of Windows? Maybe 8? > > > They actually have > > many more features than Mac's spotlight, but they lack the marketing and > > usability of spotlight. Baloo would be a bad fit on both windows and mac. > > I am sad to hear that. It would be nice if apps from KDE could keep > indexing terms in the same place as Spotlight. >
Is there something stopping Baloo from becoming a "thin" wrapper around the native solutions when used on those platforms? (Except man power ;) /Kåre
