Re: [gentoo-user] KDE5 & Disabling search and recent documents & thoughts
On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 04:55:05PM -0700, Daniel Frey wrote: > OK > > WHY can't we have a single checkbox to disable all this crap? I found > one and it didn't work (search in system settings.) Then when I was > searching around online I found out it will reenable itself magically > randomly anyway! It's a different kind of search than the one you speak of, but the The "new classic menu" has become practically unusable by keyboard thanks to its new built-in search field. :’( - The search field eats every key stroke except the cursor keys, so there is no more way of selecting an item by its first letter. Why a search field at all? We have KRunner for that (as long as it isn’t crashing). - The Favourites and Power options on the left margin are not reachable with the keyboard at all. - In KDE4 I could do Alt+F1 + V + R to put the computer to sleep from the "Leave" submenu. Now I must press Alt+F1 + Cursor up + Cursor right + 3 × Cursor down + Enter to achieve the same. I can’t imagine a feature request for the search to be hideable will be heard. But just as those poor Windows 10 users do, I keep sticking to KDE, because all in all, KDE is still the best thing out there. I upgraded my main PC when KDE4 was removed from the package manager, but I just can’t bring it over my heart to do the same on the laptop. KDE4 is just too cozy, even with its few remaining quirks. =) -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla’ Please do not share anything from, with or about me on any social network. I consider bowling to be a smashing idea. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
[gentoo-user] KDE5 & Disabling search and recent documents & thoughts
OK We're in 2016 now. And KDE *still* doesn't make it easy to disable their damn indexer. I've never wanted to search through my menu, I've never wanted it to remember every damn file I've opened. It's a personal preference. WHY can't we have a single checkbox to disable all this crap? I found one and it didn't work (search in system settings.) Then when I was searching around online I found out it will reenable itself magically randomly anyway! I also tried balooctl and it didn't work either. So I got very pissed off at this point and did the following: $ chmod 444 ~/.kde4/share/apps/RecentDocuments/ $ rm /usr/bin/*baloo* Rebooted $ rm -rf ~/.config/baloo* $ rm -rf ~/.local/share/baloo Rebooted again ...and FINALLY it stopped indexing and remembering stuff that I told it not to. It still remembers the last application used, but I don't really care about that. I've put those commands in a script in /etc/local.d too. Just figured others might want the info. A note, searching for files through Dolphin can be affected by this. I never do that myself, I always use a shell (konsole, etc.) I've been using and tweaking for a couple hours now and haven't seen any ill side-effects from my "nuclear" option. One other gripe on KDE5: it's 2016, why can't we use the meta key to pop up the menu? Really... Other than that, things are a bit different. I'm not sure I like the flat look yet. After the upgrade for some reason the K menu was invisible, but when I set the theme to Oxygen it was visible again? I thought that was odd, did anyone else experience that? Dan
