updated kio help file

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newer</em>, which presents results as directory entries</li> newer</em>, which presents results as directory entries</li>
</ul> </ul>
<p>The module is still in its infancy. You will undoubtedly obtain <p>With recent KDE versions (now: 2016), the file manager
strange effects from time to time. If you have any remarks or interface works in Dolphin, and both the file manager and the HTML
ideas about improving kio_recoll, or observe an interesting and interface work in Konqueror.</p>
reproducible sequence, please <a href="mailto:jfd@recoll.org">
report it</a>.</p> <p>You will undoubtedly obtain strange effects from time to time. If
<p><b>kio_recoll</b> is primarily you have any remarks or ideas about improving kio_recoll, or
designed and tested with <b>konqueror</b>, and you will observe an interesting and reproducible sequence,
undoubtedly get <i>even</i> more surprising effects with other tools.</p> please <a href="mailto:jfd@recoll.org"> report it</a>.</p>
<p>The Html interface is currently much more usable. The directory
interface is extremely quirky.</p>
<p>The module is particularly unhelpful with search hits inside <p>The module is particularly unhelpful with search hits inside
email folders, which Konqueror has no way to access.</p> email folders, which Konqueror or Dolphin have no way to access.</p>
<h3>HTML interface</h3> <h3>HTML interface</h3>
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<p>There are several ways to enter this interface:</p> <p>There are several ways to enter this interface:</p>
<ul> <ul>
<li>Using "recollf" as protocol name instead of "recoll". This is <li>Dolphin will only present the file manager interface. Enter
probably the easiest option inside open dialogs.</li> <i>recoll:/some&nbsp;query</i>
or <i>recoll:&nbsp;some&nbsp;query</i> in the address bar. Note:
single-slash, not double, you will get something like "Protocol
unknown" if you enter 2 slashes.</li>
<li>Using an URL ending with a&nbsp;'/', ie: <li>Konqueror: this supports both the file manager and HTML
<blockquote> interfaces. You can force using the file manager interface in the
<a href="recoll:/red apples ext:html/"> following ways:
recoll:/red apples ext:html/</a> <ul>
</blockquote> <li>Using "recollf" as protocol name instead of "recoll". This is
</li> probably the easiest option inside open dialogs.</li>
<li>Users who will want to use the file manager view most of the
time can set the <code>RECOLL_KIO_ALWAYS_DIR</code> environment <li>Using an URL ending with a&nbsp;'/', ie:
variable or the <code>kio_always_dir</code> recoll.conf variable <blockquote>
to&nbsp;1. The HTML interface will then only be accessible <a href="recoll:/red apples ext:html/">
through the search link in the top "recoll:" view.</li> recoll:/red apples ext:html/</a>
</blockquote>
</li>
<li>If you would like to use the file manager view most of the
time, you can set the <code>RECOLL_KIO_ALWAYS_DIR</code> environment
variable or the <code>kio_always_dir</code> recoll.conf variable
to&nbsp;1. The HTML interface will then only be accessible
through the search link in the top "recoll:" view.</li>
</ul>
</ul> </ul>
<p>No search result details (samples, relevance etc.) are available, <p>No search result details (samples, relevance etc.) are available,
but this interface allows multiple selections and copies, usage but this interface allows multiple selections and copies, usage
inside any KDE open dialog, etc.</p> inside any KDE open dialog, etc.</p>
<p>To avoid swamping the interface with thousands of results, the <p>To avoid swamping the interface with too many thousands of
result count is limited to 100 by default. You can change this value results, the result count is limited to 10000 by default. You can
by setting the <code>kio_max_direntries</code> parameter in your recoll change this value by setting the <code>kio_max_direntries</code>
configuration file (typically ~/.recoll/recoll.conf)</p> parameter in your recoll configuration file (typically
~/.recoll/recoll.conf)</p>
<p>Because of limitations in the current KIO slave usage, the actual
entry names are not those displayed but synthetic ones like
"recollResultxxx". This has unfortunate side-effects when
dragging/dropping the entries to some other application, or when
using an open dialog (the opened file doesn't have the correct path
to the original file).</p>
<p><a href="recoll:///search.html">Recoll Search</a></p> <p><a href="recoll:///search.html">Recoll Search</a></p>