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Dockes</holder>
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<releaseinfo>$Id: usermanual.sgml,v 1.28 2006-11-30 13:38:43 dockes Exp $</releaseinfo>
<releaseinfo>$Id: usermanual.sgml,v 1.29 2006-12-14 13:53:42 dockes Exp $</releaseinfo>
<abstract>
<para>This document introduces full text search notions
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by side.</para>
<para>Clicking the <literal>Edit</literal> link will attempt to
start an external viewer (have a look at the
<filename>mimeconf</filename> configuration file to see how
these are configured).</para>
start an external viewer. The viewers can be configured through the
user preferences dialog, or by editing the
<filename>mimeview</filename> configuration file.</para>
<para>The <literal>Preview</literal> and <literal>Edit</literal>
edit links may not be present for all entries, meaning that
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the file type. This can sometimes be adjusted simply by tweaking
the <link linkend="rclinstall.config.mimemap">
<filename>mimemap</filename></link> and
<link linkend="rclinstall.config.mimeconf">
<filename>mimeconf</filename></link> configuration files.</para>
<link linkend="rclinstall.config.mimeview">
<filename>mimeview</filename></link> configuration files (the latter
can be modified with the user preferences dialog).</para>
<para>You can click on the <literal>Query details</literal> link
at the top of the results page to see the query actually
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<title>The mimeconf file</title>
<para><filename>mimeconf</filename> specifies how the
different mime types are handled for indexing, and for
display.</para>
different mime types are handled for indexing, and which icons
are displayed in the <command>recoll</command> result lists.</para>
<para>Changing the indexing parameters is probably not a
good idea except if you are a &RCL; developers.</para>
<para>You may want to adjust the external viewers defined in
(ie: HTML is either previewed internally or displayed using
<application>firefox</application>, but you may prefer
<application>mozilla</application>, your
<application>openoffice.org</application>
program might be named <command>oofice</command> instead of
<command>openoffice</command> ...). Look
for the <literal>[view]</literal> section.</para>
<para>You can also change the icons which are displayed by
<para>You can change the icons which are displayed by
<command>recoll</command> in the result lists (the values are
the basenames of the png images inside the
<filename>iconsdir</filename> directory (specified in
<filename>recoll.conf</filename>).</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="rclinstall.config.mimeview">
<title>The mimeview file</title>
<para><filename>mimeview</filename> specifies which programs
are started when you click on an <guilabel>Edit</guilabel>
link in a result list. Ie: HTML is normally displayed using
<application>firefox</application>, but you may prefer
<application>Konqueror</application>, your
<application>openoffice.org</application>
program might be named <command>oofice</command> instead of
<command>openoffice</command> etc.
</para>
<para>Changes to this file can be done by direct editing, or
through the <command>recoll</command> user preferences dialog.</para>
<para>As for the other configuration files, the normal usage
is to have a <filename>mimeview</filename> inside your own
configuration directory, with just the non-default entries,
which will override those from the central configuration
file.</para>
<para>Please note that these entries must be placed under a
<literal>[view]</literal> section.</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
</chapter>