Recoll kio slave

Use this module to perform Recoll searches from any program with a KIO interface.

The module can work in two modes:

• Html interface, close to a simplified QT Recoll interface.
• File manager interface, Only with KDE 4.1 and newer, which presents results as directory entries

The module is still in its infancy. You will undoubtedly obtain strange effects from time to time. If you have any remarks or ideas about improving kio_recoll, or observe an interesting and reproducible sequence, please report it.

kio_recoll is primarily designed and tested with konqueror, and you will undoubtedly get even more surprising effects with other tools.

The Html interface is currently much more usable. The directory interface is extremely quirky.

The module is particularly unhelpful with search hits inside email folders, which Konqueror has no way to access.

HTML interface

This works more or less like the Recoll QT GUI, much simplified. The Recoll manual describes the queries that can be performed.

Most pages in the interface should quite self-explanatory.

You normally enter this interface by entering "recoll:" or "recoll:/" in the Konqueror URL entry, and following the "search" link. You can also directly enter "recoll:/search.html".
In most circumstances, entering a link like recoll:/john smith will also yield an HTML result list.

Compared to QT Recoll, the nice point is that you can click or drag/drop the icons to access the results in the standard desktop way.

File manager interface

The path part of the URI is taken as a Recoll query language string and executed. The results are displayed as directory entries.

There are several ways to enter this interface:

• Using "recollf" as protocol name instead of "recoll". This is probably the easiest option inside open dialogs.
• Using an URL ending with a '/', ie:

  recoll:/red apples ext:html/

• Users who will want to use the file manager view most of the time can set the RECOLL_KIO_ALWAYS_DIR environment variable or the kio_always_dir recoll.conf variable to 1. The HTML interface will then only be accessible through the search link in the top "recoll:" view.

No search result details (samples, relevance etc.) are available, but this interface allows multiple selections and copies, usage inside any KDE open dialog, etc.

To avoid swamping the interface with thousands of results, the result count is limited to 100 by default. You can change this value by setting the kio_max_direntries parameter in your recoll configuration file (typically ~/.recoll/recoll.conf)

Because of limitations in the current KIO slave usage, the actual entry names are not those displayed but synthetic ones like "recollResultxxx". This has unfortunate side-effects when dragging/dropping the entries to some other application, or when using an open dialog (the opened file doesn't have the correct path to the original file).

Recoll Search