Baloo provides file searching and indexing. It does so by maintaining an index of the contents of your files.

Baloo is part of the KDE umberella and relies on the KDE infrastructure.

Mailing List: kde-devel@kde.org (info page) Bug Tracker: http://bugs.kde.org (new bug) IRC Channel: #kde-baloo on Freenode

The recommended way of contributing patches is via KDE's reviewboard.

• [Searching](@ref searching)
• [FAQ](@ref baloo-faq)

[](https://build.kde.org/job/baloo master kf5-qt5)

• [Build Instructions](@ref build-instructions)
• [Coding Style](@ref coding-style)

• [General Notes](@ref distributing)