diff --git a/src/README b/src/README index 9b457b45..19149d7f 100644 --- a/src/README +++ b/src/README @@ -473,20 +473,24 @@ More documentation can be found in the doc/ directory or at http://www.recoll.or 2.4. Using Beagle WEB browser plugins - Beagle is a concurrent desktop indexer, built on Lucene and the Mono - project (C#), for which a number of add-on browser plugins were written. - These work by copying visited web pages to an indexing queue directory, - which the indexer then processes. + Beagle is (was?) a concurrent desktop indexer, built on Lucene and the + Mono project (C#), for which a number of add-on browser plugins were + written. These work by copying visited web pages to an indexing queue + directory, which the indexer then processes. Especially, there is a + Firefox extension. If, for any reason, you so happen to prefer Recoll to Beagle, you can - still use the browser plugins (they are written in Javascript and - completely independant of C#, Beagle, Lucene...). Recoll can process the - Beagle queue directory. Of course, this supposes that Beagle is not - running, else both programs will fight for the same files. + still use the Firefox plugin, which is written in Javascript and + completely independant of C#, Beagle, Lucene..., and set Recoll to process + the Beagle queue directory. This supposes that Beagle is not running, else + both programs will fight for the same files. This feature can be enabled in the GUI indexing configuration panel, or by editing the configuration file (set processbeaglequeue to 1). + There are more recent instructions about how to find and install the + Firefox extension on the Recoll wiki. + ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.5. Periodic indexing