This is one of a handful of things I disable just after a KDE install; along with kwallet, activities, active screen edge actions, bluetooth support and desktop effects. I rarely do file searches, as I generally keep things fairly well organized, so it just seems like a waste of resources to me. KDE is a bit of a bloated whale, but with a bit of configuration it ends up being one of the more pleasant DEs at the moment so I put up with it.
I'm a bit tempted to have another go at Enlightenment; I didn't much care for it last time I tried it, but it has been a few years now and it would be worth finding another desktop to fall back to just in case KDE screws up with the move to 5 as bad as they did with 4. It wasn't until about 4.7 or 4.9 that I was able to feel comfortable with using KDE on a regular basis. I went with XFCE for a while there after Gnome fell into the abyss with their version 3 overhaul, but XFCE always felt like it was missing things. It just wasn't customizable enough, but otherwise it was an ok DE.
I'm a bit tempted to have another go at Enlightenment; I didn't much care for it last time I tried it, but it has been a few years now and it would be worth finding another desktop to fall back to just in case KDE screws up with the move to 5 as bad as they did with 4. It wasn't until about 4.7 or 4.9 that I was able to feel comfortable with using KDE on a regular basis. I went with XFCE for a while there after Gnome fell into the abyss with their version 3 overhaul, but XFCE always felt like it was missing things. It just wasn't customizable enough, but otherwise it was an ok DE.
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