Hi all,
on my test system (openSUSE 13.1) I upgraded to Kde 4.13. I notice that dolphin has a new “history” place in the “places” panel (i.e. it shows what I visited yesterday , today etc…).
I loathe things like these. How can I switch this off? I mean not only the display of the information in the places panel but the very fact that Dolphin collects and saves this info somewhere. You can’t switch this off in the Dolphin config menu.
Thanks in advance
Lenwolf
It was a nepomuk related features in kde 4.12, now there’s Baloo.
Try disabling it:
http://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/497452-Baloo-Using-Excessive-Disk-I-O?p=2639548#post2639548
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/497452-Baloo-Using-Excessive-Disk-I-O?p=2639530#post2639530
The Dolphin ‘Places’ bookmarks are defined in ~/.kde4/share/apps/kfileplaces/bookmarks.xml
You can edit the above, or you can hide them graphically by right clicking on the entries and selecting ‘Hide Images’ individually.
Hi, thank you both. I’ll try to edit the bookmarks.html file. I hope that’ll switch the history off.
I didn’t have that history with Nepomuk (at least that I know of). Baloo doesn’t bother me (yet?). As I had Nepomuk switched off (told it not to lindex files), the 4.13 installer was clever enough to add my home dir to the files ecluded from the indexer, so that , apparently, Baloo didn’t ever start. Anyway, Thanks again. Lenwolf
This was only shown, if Nepomuk’s file indexing was turned ON, as file indexing is required for this functionality.
Baloo doesn’t bother me (yet?). As I had Nepomuk switched off (told it not to lindex files), the 4.13 installer was clever enough to add my home dir to the files ecluded from the indexer, so that , apparently, Baloo didn’t ever start.
Apparently just having Baloo not index anything is not sufficient to turn off that history display.
I guess you would have to disable file indexing by setting “Indexing-Enabled=false” in ~/.kde4/share/config/baloo-filerc, or by uninstalling “baloo-file” completely.
You could also try to uninstall “baloo-kioslaves”, I think this is what provides that functionality (i contains the “timeline:/” KIO slave at least).
On upgrade to 4.13 I had history displayed in panels.
Checked in config desktop > desktop search and my home directory was in the “do not search” box.
Removed it and re-added it and history disappeared from dolphin.
I tried it now, and I can confirm that.
Setting my home folder to be excluded from indexing does indeed switch off that history panel in dolphin.
(I did not have it in there before)
I did that the other day while explaining to others how to effectively disable baloo but for now I’ve left running and just hidden the ‘Recently Accessed’ shortcuts.
Hi,
That didn’t work
Thanks I’ve uninstalled both. Lenwolf
Oh well, the file is called baloofilerc, sorry.
But adding your home directory to the list of excluded directories in the “Desktop Search” settings will disable baloo-file completely as well (it recognizes that it doesn’t have anything to index and shuts itself down completely), including that History display.
But uninstalling works as well of course. And if you don’t want/need desktop search anyway, this is a sensible thing to do IMHO.
Hi,
No problem, that’s the file I amended, anyway…
Yeah, that’s what I did. As a result I can’t get rid of the entries in the “places” panel, but since they don’t lead anywhere I don’t really care. Thanks again Lenwolf
Hm?
They disappear here when I exclude $HOME from indexing. (haven’t tried to uninstall baloo-file yet)
You could try to edit ~/.kde4/share/apps/kfileplaces/bookmarks.xml, or right-click on the entries and choose “Hide”, as deano_ferrari suggested.
Well I had already excluded that from indexing. Since I now uninstalled baloo, i don(t even get the item in the system settings anymore…
Thanks, I did indeed hide them. Lenwolf
Of course.
The system settings module is contained in package “baloo-file”.