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Excellent product
Do you plan to add the ability to index smb shares? How can I help?

This is HUGE -- exceptional piece of software
I've recently changed from Windows to Kubuntu. I

tried beagle, I tried strigi, I tried google desktop

search. Non of the search tools were even close

to what I wanted.

I was quite frustrated and was already trying to

run old versions of CopernicDesktopSearch (the

tool I liked best when I ran Windows) in Wine.

But now the pain is over! Recoll is so much better

than any of those other solutions! I haven't used

it a lot, but it looks extremely powerful, so far!

Give it a try.

recoll-1.7.5
I've followed the versions from 1.1 up to present 1.7.5. The latest is much better even than the early versions - recommended to anyone!

Thanks. It works even better!
I was first put onto recoll by people on a Mandriva Expert mailing list and have found it genuinely good, unfussy, fast and not greedy in its demands on CPU and memory.

The further developments which I believe will be in version 1.5 are extremely valuable. I look forward to its appearing.

Re: thanks, it works!

> Release 1.1.0 is supposed to fix the case-sensitivity issue.

Whaaah, thanks -- it works indeed 8-) Rolling out updated packages for both latest stable and unstable :-)

Re: thanks, it works!

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> Thanks! If we can help (the first

> strike didn't really succeed and more

> pressing tasks were at hand), please

> drop a note (preferably with a hint ;-).

Release 1.1.0 is supposed to fix the case-sensitivity issue. I would much appreciate some feedback, as I am a French iso-8859-1 user, a locale for which there were no problems. If the problem is still there, please send a test case to me (email addr from freshmeat or on project home page).

Re: thanks, it works!

> I'll work on fixing this (time to go

> back to unicode documentation I guess :)

Thanks! If we can help (the first strike didn't really succeed and more pressing tasks were at hand), please drop a note (preferably with a hint ;-).

Re: thanks, it works!

> Good thingie, even without

> case-insensitive search on non-7bit (or

> non-latin1?) things. Packaged for ALT

> Linux together with Xapian. :-)

Thanks for trying and packaging recoll.

You are right about the case issue, I am going to work on it. After looking at the code, I see that there are case problems for characters which are not accented ascii (ie, to stay with iso8859-1, letter e with accent is case-insensitive, but islandic thorn is not). I suppose that with, ie, cyrillic, case insensitivity does not work at all.

I'll work on fixing this (time to go back to unicode documentation I guess :) )

jfd

thanks, it works!
Good thingie, even without case-insensitive search on non-7bit (or non-latin1?) things. Packaged for ALT Linux together with Xapian. :-)