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Warn users that the fast native indexer doesn't follow symlinks

Nate Graham requested to merge ngraham/elisa:warn-for-symbolic-links into master

When using the Baloo-powered fast native indexer, symbolic links are not followed, due to a longstanding design decision in Baloo itself. This means that if, for example, you have ~/Music configured as the only music location, and within that folder is a symbolic link pointing to ~/otherMusicLocation, none of the music there will be visible. The user will have to manually add ~/otherMusicLocation to the list of music locations as well.

This is not at all obvious, and it's not going to change in Baloo anytime soon as it is a design decision. So let's tell the user about it in the config dialog so they're aware.

BUG: 451294 FIXED-IN: 22.08

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