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<h1>Contributing to Recoll developement and availability</h1>
<p>If you are not a software developer, or have no time
available for testing the application of thinking about how it
could be improved, there is always the possibility of
contributing a donation, which will be much appreciated !<br/>
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<p>If you wish to become involved in the development of <span
class="application">Recoll</span>, please send me an <a
href="mailto:jfd@recoll.org">email</a>.</p>
<h1><a name="translation">Translation</a></h1>
<p>More translations is good ! If you are a non-english speaker
(and understand english, which can probably be assumed, you
being reading this), you can take a little time to translate
the GUI messages file.</p>
<p>The newest versions of the message files follow can be found
in <a href="translations">this directory</a>. There
is an empty one (the xx one), the others are partially
translated, just needing an update for the new messages.<p>
<p>Updating the files can easily be done with
the <span class="application">Qt Linguist</span>. Contact me
for more directions if needed.</p>
<h1><a name="development">Development</a></h1>
<p>The Recoll source repository is
on <a href="http://bitbucket.org/medoc/recoll">Bitbucket</a>. Using
Mercurial, you're 2 commands away from cloning it and
hacking away.</p>
<p>Apart from the many tasks inside the
<a href="http://bitbucket.org/medoc/recoll/issues">issue
tracking system</a>, these are the general areas where help or
ideas are particularly welcome:</p>
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<li>A better GUI design (both the ergonomy and the
appearance). Adding missing shortcuts or fixing the menu
accelerators for exemple is easy and useful.</li>
<li>More support for the more advanced <span class=
"application">Xapian</span> concepts like relevance
feedback.</li>
<li>More filters for less common or less obviously
useful file types.</li>
<li>Integration with the <span class="application">KDE</span>
desktop.</li>
<li>Integration with some mail user agent. We need a way to
jump from a message preview to the message in thread context
inside the MUA.</li>
<li>Etc. :)</li>
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<h1><a name="problemreport">Problem reporting</a></h1>
<p>Once in a while it will happen that a Recoll program will
crash (either the "recoll" graphical interface or the
"recollindex" command line indexing command).</p>
<p>Reporting crashes is very useful. It can help others, and it
can get your own problem to be solved.</p>
<p>You will find help and information about producing a useful
problem report on this
<a href="https://bitbucket.org/medoc/recoll/wiki/ProblemSolvingData">
Recoll wiki page</a>.</p>
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