--- a/website/pages/recoll-windows.txt
+++ b/website/pages/recoll-windows.txt
@@ -1,14 +1,16 @@
= Trying out Recoll on Windows
Jean-Francois Dockes <jf at dockes.org>
+
+image:recoll-windows10-thumb.png[link="recoll-windows10.png"]
The Windows port of Recoll has reached a point where it can be tested. At
least, it will not break your system, and it does not crash too often.
-It was only built and tried on Windows 7.
+It was built on Windows 7, and tried on Windows 7 and 10.
-We would be very eager to get some feedback from some actual Windows user
+I would be very eager to get some feedback from some actual Windows user
(I am only a visitor to Windows...). Is this useful at all ? What would
-make more useful ?
+make it more useful ?
There is no installer for the moment, the program and its auxiliary files
are stored in a Zip file. This is quite big, because it contains a good
@@ -18,7 +20,10 @@
assumption where it should reside, I use `c:/recoll`, but anywhere
else should be ok.
-http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/windows/[Download directory]
+You can get the Zip file either from the
+http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/windows/[download directory on
+lesbonscomptes] or from
+https://bitbucket.org/medoc/recoll/downloads/[the one on bitbucket].
Besides extracting the Zip, you need to:
@@ -42,8 +47,12 @@
PATH and add them as: `C:\Python27;C:\Program Files\7-Zip` (use a
semi-colon as separator).
+Windows tricks:
-Know problems:
+ - When filtering the search with a `dir:` clause, an absolute path
+ should be specified as `/c/mydir` instead of `c:/mydir`
+
+Known problems:
- The default result list font is particularly ugly. Change it from
`Preferences->GUI Configuration->Result List->Result List Font`