Re: Duplicate detection in f-spot

[Thomas Van Machelen <thomas vanmachelen gmail com>]

On Sat, 2008-09-06 at 23:41 +0200, Jörg Rosenkranz wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> 2008/9/6 Thomas Van Machelen <thomas vanmachelen gmail com>
>         If
>         that is the case (and if you requested not to import
>         duplicates), then
>         f-spot will skip the image, only importing the ones that are
>         not yet in
>         your image library.
>         
Skipping is indicated in the import window by the counter going up but
no imported image shown; better indication of what is happening should
be trivial to add though.

Currently the md5 sum and the mime type of images are compared; but
nothing prevents us for doing smarter stuff in the compare, like
analyzing metadata etc. In that scenario the md5 serves as starting
point to check for _possible_ duplicates.

Regards,
Thomas
> 
> Is there any indication that an image will be skipped? Or are there
> any other tests when an MD5 shows that an image is a duplicate? 
> 
> Thanks,
> Joerg. 
>