SUMMARY Performing a duplicate search is quite cumbersome at the moment. First, you must right click the Album or Tag and select "Find Duplicates...". Digikam then just opens the Similarity panel with the Album or Tag preselected on the dropdown list, but does nothing. The user then needs to select the appropriate "Restrict to" option ("Albums but no tags, or "Tags but not albums"), otherwise the search won't work, and finally click on the "Find duplicates" button. Moreover, that panel will show the results of the last similarity search performed by the user (even from the "Image" tab). I think old results should be cleared up before performing the new search. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Right click on any Album or Tag. 2. Click on "Find duplicates...". OBSERVED RESULT The Similarity panel opens. Said Album/Tag is pre-selected on the list. If a previous search had been performed, the results are still there. EXPECTED RESULT The search is performed automatically and results (duplicated pictures) are shown. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Ubuntu 18.04 with Gnome digikam-6.2.0-git-20190522T104638-qtwebkit-x86-64.appimage
What do you think about the ComboBox at top, ie "only selected tabs, albums but not tags", etc. Is this helpful? Mario installed it, because the album selection was not so clear, but there were corrections in the meantime. I tend to remove this selection... Maik
I mean, it allows for flexibility in the search, which is great, but it's not user friendly at all. I would personally put that Combobox in an "Advanced" section, and by default search only in Albums or Tags, based on which tab is selected at that moment. Same with the "Similarity range" and "Restriction" options.
Oh, and I forgot, I would perform the fingerprint update on the go, as new files are imported into Digikam. At least if the main fingerprint update has already been performed manually. (Maybe an option in the main settings, to enable o disable automatic fingerprints?). Otherwise the user needs to remember to regularly update the fingerprints by going to that panel an clicking that button. (And the same same applies to face detection/recognition, but that's another topic).
Git commit 672daf431b8c0ac79a843ff05824c0449fd0a308 by Maik Qualmann. Committed on 25/05/2019 at 20:18. Pushed by mqualmann into branch 'master'. perform auto duplicates search an set settings fix some search albums views FIXED-IN: 6.2.0 M +2 -1 NEWS M +1 -1 core/app/views/sidebar/leftsidebarwidgets.cpp M +6 -2 core/libs/album/manager/albummanager.h M +8 -0 core/libs/album/manager/albummanager_album.cpp M +32 -1 core/utilities/fuzzysearch/findduplicatesview.cpp M +1 -0 core/utilities/fuzzysearch/findduplicatesview.h M +7 -7 core/utilities/fuzzysearch/fuzzysearchview.cpp M +2 -2 core/utilities/geolocation/mapsearches/gpssearchview.cpp M +1 -1 core/utilities/searchwindow/searchmodificationhelper.cpp https://invent.kde.org/kde/digikam/commit/672daf431b8c0ac79a843ff05824c0449fd0a308