diff --git a/src/desktop/unity-lens-recoll/recollscope/rclsearch.py b/src/desktop/unity-lens-recoll/recollscope/rclsearch.py
index a415ff67..2f3dec84 100755
--- a/src/desktop/unity-lens-recoll/recollscope/rclsearch.py
+++ b/src/desktop/unity-lens-recoll/recollscope/rclsearch.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import locale
 from gi.repository import Unity, GObject, Gio
 
 try:
-    import rclconfig
+    from recoll import rclconfig
     hasrclconfig = True
 except:
     hasrclconfig = False
diff --git a/src/python/samples/trconfig.py b/src/python/samples/trconfig.py
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..08e93968
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/python/samples/trconfig.py
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+from recoll import rclconfig
+
+def trstack():
+    conf = rclconfig.ConfStack("recoll.conf",
+                               ('/home/dockes/.recoll/',
+                                '/usr/local/share/recoll/examples/'))
+    nms = ('topdirs', 'thrQSizes', 'skippedNames', 'loglevel')
+    for nm in nms:
+        print nm, "=>", conf.get(nm)
+
+def trtree(fname):
+    conf = rclconfig.ConfTree(fname, True)
+
+    #nsk = (('intoto', '/a/b/'), ('intoto', ''), ('intoto', '/a/b/c'), ('intoto', '/c'))
+    nsk = (('intoto', ''), ('intoto', '/'), ('intoto', '/a/b/c'),
+           ('intoto', 'a'))
+    for nm, sk in nsk:
+        print sk, nm, "=>", conf.get(nm, sk)
+        print
+
+def trsimple(fname):
+    conf = rclconfig.ConfSimple(fname)
+    nms = ('thrQSizes',)
+    for nm in nms:
+        print nm, "=>", conf.get(nm)
+    
+#    nsk = (('intoto', '/toto'), ('intoto', ''))
+#    for nm, sk in nsk:
+#        print sk, nm, "=>", conf.get(nm, sk)
+
+def trconfig():
+    config = rclconfig.RclConfig()
+    names = ("topdirs", "indexallfilenames")
+    for nm in names:
+        print "%s: [%s]" % (nm, config.getConfParam(nm))
+
+def trextdbs():
+    config = rclconfig.RclConfig("/home/dockes/.recoll-prod")
+    extradbs = rclconfig.RclExtraDbs(config)
+    print extradbs.getActDbs()
+    
+#trconfig()
+#trsimple(sys.argv[1])
+
+trextdbs()