Disabling baloo is the first thing I always do after installing KDE Plasma, because I find it negatively affecting the performance, even on relatively high end hardware.
So, I always do:
balooctl suspend
balooctl disable
and
rm -rf ~/.local/share/baloo
If I need to search for files, I use the find utility, like the good Lord intended.
Are talking about kfind?
No, Iâm talking about find (GNU findutils).
I found that Baloo can have a negative impact as well. One update under Manjaro I ended up disabling it till KDE released a fix. I have both Catfish and Angrysearch installed and just checked Catfish and it wonât find items in system settings at all, so items in system settings being indexed may be only in the builtin search.
After yesterdayâs updates I decided to try to search âautostartâ from bot the desktop and apps menu again and it comes up now. Have to assume something in the Plasma 5.20 update fixed it.