Re: gqview removed from rawhide

[P draigBrady com]

Doncho N. Gunchev wrote:
> On 2004-08-12 (Thursday) 23:13, Carwyn Edwards wrote:
>
> > Doncho N. Gunchev wrote:
> >
> > > On 2004-08-12 (Thursday) 21:30, Christopher Aillon wrote:
> >
> > >    I want to mention that gqview has 'File->Find Duplicates' command,
> > > which gthumb misses.
> >
> > Gthumb has an Edit->Find Duplicates, does this not do the same thing?
> >
> > Carwyn
>
>     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.

I really don't see how a fuzzy match is useful in general.
I didn't realise Gthumb has a find duplicates function,
but you can use FSlint for this which is in extras.

Pádraig.