Shuttleworth: Unity shell will be default desktop in Ubuntu 11.04 (ars technica)

- there is an option to erase the files in the trashcan
- tmp directories are typically erased at every reboot
- browsers have a nice friendly menu entry to erase sensitive data.

My point is precisely this one: _before_ systems with indexing enabled by default ship, indexing systems should include options to
_selectively erase the index database_ (and reclaim the used space). Which _none_ of the current indexing system has (certainly not nepomuk, where the only option is to erase a database file by hand, loosing all of the database, including file tags.).

I am not against indexing saying that it is a privacy concern tout court. I am against the fact that indexing is enabled by default and now made a central part of the system _before_ the indexing implementations are completed by adding ways of controlling what is actually indexed. This is IMHO a very gratuitious way to look for trouble.

Would you accept to have a desktop system with a trashcan, where the trashcan cannot be emptied? Or a browser where stored passwords cannot be deleted? So why do people tend to accept so easily the idea of an indexing system where the index database cannot be controlled?