kio-clucene 0.1.0

kio-clucene provides an indexed search engine for KDE.
kio-clucene is a KDE search ioslave that uses clucene, a C++ implementation of lucene, a well-known full-featured text search engine library. kio-clucene gives any KDE application friendly access to searching the content of files inside directories, archives, and many virtual file systems. Optical character recognition (OCR) is supported by using a program like gocr, allowing the text content of images to be indexed.
Main features:
kio-clucene can search for
- full text content
- mimetype
- metainfo
- mod. dates
- path names
- multifield queries are possible (a multifield search-dialog can be used (or not))
kio-clucene can index
- local files
- remote files (ftp,pop3,... (basic support))
- archives (basic local support)
- read-only data stored on cds,dvds.
- text inside images using optical character recognition OCR programs like gocr
kio-clucene stores previews of
- all images
- all videos
kio-clucene can search on
- a single index
- multiple indexes
- Multithreaded search-daemon.
Integration with KDE
- kio-clucene integrates well to the existing kde-framework. You can use kio-clucene from
- konqueror location-bar
- kicker "run command"
- "Alt+F2" "run command"
- any apps, using the openfile dialog
- Example: from kpdf, you could open the file-dialog and search very fast for your pdfs like adobe acrobat reader can do.
The ioslave is build to be user-friendly
- it works a bit like KDE remote-ioslave
- it can call a search-dialog which allow for multifields queries
- it displays recent queries
- recent queries can be saved to desktop-files
- => this almost emulates "virtual folders"
Search-engine
- The search engine is based on clucene, a c++ implementation of apache/lucene. clucene allows for sophisticated queries like:
- proximity-words queries
- but kio-clucene does not implements queries of the form *substring yet.
Display of the results
- So far only standard KDE-listviews are used to display the URLs of the matching documents. No kpart is provided for the display/sorting of the results like beagle can do.
Instantaneous file indexing
- This is not provided by the indexer, but any KDE application can make use of DCOP to request the indexing of any URL. Instantaneous indexing is a kernel/kdecore problem. But Suse 9.3 already ships with beagle installed, and an inotify-enabled kernel. So those features should soon be available with KDE too.
kio-clucene build-system is Scons-enabled
- Kio-clucene make use of the scons build and install system.