Hello!
A few days ago I played a bit with baloo because I noticed it was not showing me a file while using it to search in a folder. Same file could also not be found with the default search functionality, but showed up fine when using the locate command in the terminal.
Went down a rabbithole of recreating the index, changing settings, repeat and all that jazz, but at the end of the day I was unable to find that file through anything KDE provided.
During all of this fun I managed to see the baloo index grow up to 15 gigs, while the locate one is 79MB and it seems to work instantly.
I have searched a bit on the topic but was unable to find an answer, but are there reasons why Dolphin doesn’t just use locate/plocate in the backend?