Re: Revamped Duplicates Patch

[Larry Ewing <lewing novell com>]

On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 13:48 +0100, Ruben Vermeersch wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 13:40 +0100, Thomas Van Machelen wrote:
> *snip*
> > > This ties into my next point, that I think users would
> > > expect doing a Find Duplicates to not search just the photos they have
> > > selected.  If we can make it so that checking all files for being
> > > duplicates is fast, that should probably be the only option.
> > >
> > 
> > I don't know about this one.  I'll wait for some more feedback to
> > decide what would be the best approach here.
> 
> I'm on Gabriel's side here, I'd rather not go through all my pictures to
> find dupes, I want to select a menu item and instantly see all the
> pictures that are nuke-able.
> 
> Great patch btw! I hope it calculates the MD5 solely on the visible
> image data and not on the EXIF data? (This is altered when a picture is
> tagged).

Not currently.  I should probably add some methods to the image classes
that allow them to refine the checksum so that it has a better chance of
matching.  It's important to also do a full checksum to point out that
the file is not an exact duplicate though.

--Larry