The screenshots in this section may occasionally be slightly outdated, but they are usually recent enough to get an overall impression of the current state of the GUI.
* **Find & Preview**. Instead of merely telling you where your search phrase has been found, it should also render the corresponding portion/pages of the documents and highlight the searched words.
* **No daemons**. As some other desktop search projects are prone to have annoying daemons running that eat system resources away, this solution should make do without daemons where possible.
* **Easy setup**. Similarly, there should be no need for heavy-weight databases. Instead, looqs tries to squeeze out the most from simple approaches. In particular, it relies on sqlite.
* **Sandboxing**. As reading and rendering lots of formats naturally opens the door for security bugs, those tasks are offloaded to small, sandboxed sub-processes to mitigate the effect of exploited vulnerabilities.
Linux (on amd64) is currently the main focus. Currently, I don't plan on supporting anything else and the sandboxing architecture does not make it likely. I suppose a version without sandboxing might be conceivable for other platforms, but I have no plans or resources to actively target anything but Linux at this point.
looqs is also distributed as a tarball containing prebuilt binaries and its library dependencies. The tarball is
built with the Gentoo Hardened toolchain and the Qt version is smaller than what distributions usually
include. It does not include libraries that should mess with fontrendering or the graphics stack. The binaries should run on any recent Linux distribution (requires glibc 2.34 or newer at least) and expects
dependencies such as libGL to be provided by your distribution already (should be the case).
It's considered experimental for two reasons. Firstly, looqs has no updater (yet). You will have to manually check for updates. Secondly, I can't guarantee that I'll be quick with updates of the tarball specifically
if the library versions become outdated between looqs updates.
You are therefore encouraged to use distro-native packages or to build it yourself if possible.
The prebuilt tarball can be obtained here: https://repo.quitesimple.org/tarball/looqs
Quick start:
```
# Verify sig, see the end of this document: gpg --verify looqs-v0.4.tar.xz.sig
tar xf looqs-v0.4.tar.xz # Replace with the actual version you have obtained
cd looqs-v0.4
./looqs-gui # or ./looqs for the CLI
```
An AppImage may accompany the prebuilt tarball in the future.
I'll probably add a package for voidlinux at some point and maybe will provide a Gentoo ebuild. However, I would appreciate help for others distros. If you create a package, let me know!
Release tags can be verified with [my PGP public key](https://quitesimple.org/share/pubkey). For what little it's worth, its fingerprint is: `C342 CA02 D2EC 2E14 F3C3 D5FF 7F7B 4C08 02CD 02F2`
Packages can be verified with the [repo-specific public key](https://repo.quitesimple.org/repo.quitesimple.org.asc). For what little it's worth, its fingerprint is: `1B49 45B3 16B2 468A 3DAC C1E0 75EF 3FE8 D753 C8F9`
