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Vishesh Handa
Personal blog · vhanda.in/blogprogrammingsystems
Vishesh Handa's personal blog at vhanda.in covers programming and systems. Since 2014, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for posts about KDE desktop search and indexing, including Nepomuk, Baloo and Akonadi. The one comment cites the blog as a source on Baloo being hard to disable.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Welcome to my website!
What Hacker News says?
> I would think KDE should disable akonadi and stuff by default personally - its super useable without all the heavy weight "crap". I agree. Unfortunately, they replaced Nepomuk with Baloo in 4.13 (I think ; Baloo seems more aggressive than the former) and have effectively taken the stance that users cannot (easily) disable it [1]. It's somewhat infuriating, because adding your home to the ignore list doesn't appear…
Comment linking /blog/2014/04/desktop-search-configuration/
on “LXQt – The next generation of the Lightweight Desktop Environment”Submitted KDE and the Semantic Desktop as a story · 80 points
HN discussionSubmitted Integrating e-mail metadata into your KDE Plasma desktop as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Introducing Milou : KDE's new search interface as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
