Re: Adding "Find Duplicates" feature to F-Spot

[Alvaro del Castillo <acs openshine com>]

Hi!

In order to make easy to talk about the proposal I have created a
screenshot proposal so you can see how it will work.

http://acs.barrapunto.org/en/?page_id=57

Cheers

El vie, 17-06-2005 a las 20:21 +0200, Alvaro del Castillo escribió:
> Hi guys!
> 
> This is the first time I write to the list so I try to be as polite as
> possible in the first steps ;-) (later also, of course).
> 
> I have a big album with about 8.000 photos and I plan to export all of
> them using F-Spot to my gallery [1] website. F-Spot has imported all the
> photos without problems but I have found in the import process some
> problems:
> 
> 1. I have lots of duplicates in my album and I will need to clean them.
> 
> 2. The export feature from F-Spot to gallery doesn't seems to be rock
> solid:
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169562#c2
> 
> So it is time to try to help. I have seen that the TODO list is very
> large, so F-Spot needs a lot of work, but working in 1. and 2. could be
> the best way to see if I find enought time and motivation to work in
> this great application.
> 
> So I am working right now in "1. Finding Duplicates".
> 
> The process could be very simple:
> 
> - In the Find menu add a new entry "Find Duplicates".
> 
> - When the new menu entry is selected I travel trought all the selected
> images, or all the images is there isn't a selection, and doing a MD5sum
> of the files contents, it is easy to see if two images are the same.
> 
> - I plan to present the user all the duplicate images with the original.
> All the duplicates will be selected so it is very easy for the user to
> remove them if she wants.
> 
> Trying to show the group of duplicates images only I have seen that it
> is easy to show images that are tagged, or it is easy to use a time
> range to show some specific images, but it is not as easy in the first
> travel trought to the code to show a specific list of images.
> 
> Thinking about the best way to do it maybe creating a new tag
> "Duplicate" could be a great and direct way to implent the feature. The
> user that wants to find the duplicates images just select the
> "Duplicate" tag. I will use also the "Find" menu entry because it is
> very natural for the user to go there to find the duplicates.
> 
> I plan to find sometime this weekend to finish the implementation so any
> ideas about the implementation proposal will be very welcomed.
> 
> Thanks guys for the great product you have created!
> 
> Cheers
> 
> -- Alvaro
> 
> [1] http://acs.barrapunto.org/gallery/ (sorry, it is in spanish
> language)
> 
> 
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