diff --git a/src/filters/rclrtf b/src/filters/rclrtf
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..90f89e75
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/filters/rclrtf
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# @(#$Id: rclrtf,v 1.1 2005-11-21 16:05:07 dockes Exp $  (C) 2004 J.F.Dockes
+# Some inspiration from estraier
+#================================================================
+# rclrtf
+# convert rtf to html, by  executing the unrtf program:
+#    http://www.gnu.org/software/unrtf/unrtf.html
+#================================================================
+
+
+# set variables
+LANG=C ; export LANG
+LC_ALL=C ; export LC_ALL
+progname="rclrtl"
+
+# show help message
+if test $# -ne 1 -o "$1" = "--help" 
+then
+  printf 'Convert RTF to HTML for Recoll input.\n'
+  printf 'Usage: %s [infile]\n' "$progname"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+infile="$1"
+
+# check the input file existence
+if test ! -f "$infile"
+then
+  printf '%s: %s: no such file\n' "$progname" "$infile"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+iscmd()
+{
+    cmd=$1
+    case $cmd in
+    */*)
+	if test -x $cmd ; then return 0; else return 1; fi ;;
+    *)
+      oldifs=$IFS; IFS=":"; set -- $PATH; IFS=$oldifs
+      for d in $*;do test -x $d/$cmd && return 0;done
+      return 1 ;;
+    esac
+}
+checkcmds()
+{
+    for cmd in $*;do
+      if iscmd $cmd 
+      then 
+        a=1
+      else 
+        echo $cmd not found 1>&2 
+	exit 1
+      fi
+    done
+}
+checkcmds awk unrtf
+
+# output the result
+unrtf --nopict --html "$infile" 2> /dev/null |
+awk '
+BEGIN {
+  gothead = 0
+}
+/<\/head>/{
+    if (gothead == 0) {
+        printf("<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=ISO8859-1\">\n")
+	gothead = 1
+    }
+}
+{
+  print
+}
+' 
diff --git a/src/sampleconf/mimeconf b/src/sampleconf/mimeconf
index c9d7b8c7..4401cd5b 100644
--- a/src/sampleconf/mimeconf
+++ b/src/sampleconf/mimeconf
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# @(#$Id: mimeconf,v 1.9 2005-11-21 14:31:24 dockes Exp $  (C) 2004 J.F.Dockes
+# @(#$Id: mimeconf,v 1.10 2005-11-21 16:05:07 dockes Exp $  (C) 2004 J.F.Dockes
 
 # Recoll : associations of mime types to processing filters.
 # There are different sections for decompression, 'interning' for indexing
@@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ application/vnd.sun.xml.writer.template = exec rclsoff
 
 text/x-gaim-log = exec rclgaim
 
+text/rtf = exec rclrtf
+
 ## 
 # External viewers, launched when you double-click a result entry
 [view]
diff --git a/src/sampleconf/mimemap b/src/sampleconf/mimemap
index f0abfe8a..08bd9df1 100644
--- a/src/sampleconf/mimemap
+++ b/src/sampleconf/mimemap
@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
-# @(#$Id: mimemap,v 1.9 2005-11-21 14:31:24 dockes Exp $  (C) 2004 J.F.Dockes
+# @(#$Id: mimemap,v 1.10 2005-11-21 16:05:07 dockes Exp $  (C) 2004 J.F.Dockes
 
 # Recoll: associations of file name extensions to mime types
 .txt = text/plain
 .text = text/plain
 .d    = text/plain
 
+.rtf  = text/rtf
+
 .html = text/html
 .htm = text/html
 .shtml = text/html
diff --git a/src/sampleconf/recoll.conf b/src/sampleconf/recoll.conf
index b0ddf742..0818da02 100644
--- a/src/sampleconf/recoll.conf
+++ b/src/sampleconf/recoll.conf
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# @(#$Id: recoll.conf,v 1.9 2005-11-21 14:31:24 dockes Exp $  (C) 2004 J.F.Dockes
+# @(#$Id: recoll.conf,v 1.10 2005-11-21 16:05:07 dockes Exp $  (C) 2004 J.F.Dockes
 
 # Recoll default configuration file. This should be copied to
 # ~/.recoll/recoll.conf 
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ mimeconffile = mimeconf
 # you will have to copy the pngs from the distribution to wherever you want
 # to store them (the associations are decided in mimeconf)
 showicons = 1
-iconsdir = ~/.recoll
+iconsdir = /usr/local/share/recoll/images
 
 # Where to store the database.
 dbdir = ~/.recoll/xapiandb