gqview removed from rawhide

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 20:38:25 -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 23:42:35 +0300, Doncho N. Gunchev
> <mr700 at globalnet.xx> wrote:
> >     No, it finds exact duplicates, not similar files. With gqview you get
> > info like pic1.jpg is 98% similar to pic0.jpg. I have two pictures for
> > tests - first only with one object on clean background and the second
> > with the same object on colored background. Gthumb finds nothing.
> 
> cough... technically... that sounds like a bug in gqview to me.
> Because the feature is 'find duplicates'... not 'find 90% or more
> similar based on some magic algorithm that might be what i mean when I
> think of similar since well similar could be defined
> about 300 different similar but not exactly duplicate ways and and
> tweaking of the algorithm over time with different releases would
> result in strikingly different results being presented to the user so
> its more a sense of artistic style than a really quantative
> comparison'.

Nah. It's a well-designed feature. Please take a look at gqview before
commenting on it. The "find duplicates" feature can be customized. You can
choose from different comparison criteria. Finding exact duplicates (=
"similarity 100%") is possible, too, of course.