There is an upstream bug to turn Baloo off. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=332195 There are other related Baloo bugs related to the IO performance issues. Comment 11 is spot on. I would add 6) (K)ubuntu packages should be built without Baloo as a dependency. I removed Baloo for the reasons listed, and it took Gwenview, Dolphin, Kmail, and others along with it. That's a different bug, however.
There is an upstream bug to turn Baloo off. https:/ /bugs.kde. org/show_ bug.cgi? id=332195 There are other related Baloo bugs related to the IO performance issues. Comment 11 is spot on. I would add 6) (K)ubuntu packages should be built without Baloo as a dependency. I removed Baloo for the reasons listed, and it took Gwenview, Dolphin, Kmail, and others along with it. That's a different bug, however.