[Shotwell] Mistaken Duplicates?

[David Velazquez]

If you run into any issues feel free to post to the list. Plenty of helpful
people around! If I can get around to it this weekend I was thinking about
doing a step by step guide similar to the one I linked you to on a stock
Ubuntu installation.
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:45 PM, Gary Lawrence Murphy <garym at teledyn.com>wrote:

> thanks ... I just might do that
>
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 9:54 PM, David Velazquez <
> david.velazquez08 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Shotwell .8.1 will not be backported for Lucid due to (I think) issues
>> with the minimum and maximum versions of Vala it can use. You can, however,
>> build Shotwell from source. While this is more difficult than using the PPA
>> it's really not nearly as difficult as it sounds. You can view the
>> dependencies for it here: http://yorba.org/shotwell/install/, download
>> the stable source for it here:
>> http://yorba.org/download/shotwell/0.8/shotwell-0.8.1.tar.bz2 , and view
>> a little more information here on exiv and gexiv2, both of which are
>> required.
>>
>> If you want to live on the bleeding edge of things you can use a guide
>> contributed from one of Shotwells users, Bengt Thuree, located here:
>> http://trac.yorba.org/wiki/HowToBuildInDebianFromSource
>>
>> <http://trac.yorba.org/wiki/HowToBuildInDebianFromSource>
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 6:53 PM, Gary Lawrence Murphy <garym at teledyn.com>wrote:
>>
>>> that's what I thought I had:
>>>
>>> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yorba/ppa
>>> sudo apt-get update
>>> sudo aptitude safe-upgrade
>>>
>>> ah I see my error now: I'm not on maverick on this machine, I'm on lucid:
>>>
>>> $ sudo aptitude show shotwell
>>> Package: shotwell
>>> New: yes
>>> State: installed
>>> Automatically installed: no
>>> Version: 0.7.2-1~lucid1
>>> Priority: optional
>>> Section: gnome
>>> Maintainer: Jim Nelson <jim at yorba.org>
>>>
>>> hey .... that's YOU! :)  Ok, I guess I'm awaiting a backport then :)  or
>>> awaiting 11.04, which ever comes first.  thanks for the tip.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Jim Nelson <jim at yorba.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> > There was a lot of work between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0 dealing with fixing
>>> > duplicate detection.  I can't speak for an 0.8.1 deb, but the Yorba PPA
>>> has
>>> > the latest and greatest for Maverick:
>>> >
>>> > https://launchpad.net/~yorba/+archive/ppa
>>> >
>>> > -- Jim
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Gary Lawrence Murphy <
>>> garym at teledyn.com>wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> sure thing:
>>> >>
>>> >> http://img839.imageshack.us/i/shotwelldups.jpg/
>>> >>
>>> >> The version I have was downloaded just this morning from the website,
>>> but
>>> >> it is only 0.7.2; is there a .deb for 0.8.x anywhere? (if possible I'd
>>> >> rather stay with the ppa etc as it saves having to restructure things
>>> >> further down the road when the distro catches up)
>>> >>
>>> >> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Jim Nelson <jim at yorba.org> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >>> Hi Gary,
>>> >>>
>>> >>> The screenshot didn't come through the mailing list.  Can you post a
>>> link
>>> >>> to it perhaps?
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Also, what version of Shotwell are you running?  We had some bugs in
>>> the
>>> >>> duplicate detection that were fixed in 0.8.0.  (The current version
>>> is
>>> >>> 0.8.1.)
>>> >>>
>>> >>> -- Jim
>>> >>>
>>> >>> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Gary Lawrence Murphy <
>>> >>> garym at teledyn.com> wrote:
>>> >>>
>>> >>>> I have only just installed shotwell from the website into Ubuntu
>>> 10.04
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> The attached screenshot pretty much captures it: the test for
>>> duplicate
>>> >>>> photos appears to be far too naive as we can see the dialog
>>> rejecting
>>> >>>> images
>>> >>>> as duplicates where in the sidebar the images are clearly unique
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> or am I merely misunderstanding the meaning of 'duplicate'?  the
>>> dialog
>>> >>>> also
>>> >>>> might want to say what files it believes are the originals.
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> --
>>> >>>> *Have Blog, Will Travel: blog.teledyn.com*
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>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> _______________________________________________
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>>> >>>> Shotwell at lists.yorba.org
>>> >>>> http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> --
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>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >
>>>
>>>
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