Re: Feature-request: Auto-fill of file name in Search window

Lovely, thanks a lot!

On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 10:35 -0500, John Ellis wrote:
> HaJo Schatz wrote:
> > 
> > I'm using the Image Search function quite frequently for searching for
> > similar images (in terms of content). My usual behaviour is to view an
> > image in the main window, hit F3 and then search for similar ones to the
> > one currently viewed. Would be great if there would be an easy way to
> > fill the text-field of "Image content is x% similar to:" with the path &
> > file-name of the currently viewed picture -- maybe this should even be
> > filled in by default?
> 
> This is a very good idea and I often find it missing myself, it will be added as
> suggested above for the 1.5.9 release.
> 
> > I'm also wondering whether it would be feasible to create a kind of
> > hashed data base to store the key features of each image to make
> > searching for similarities faster? I guess this hashing could be done at
> > the same time the thumbnails are generated.
> 
> If you have thumbnail caching enabled, the similarity/checksums/dimensions data
> for each image is also supposed to be cached, but testing it I see there is a
> simple bug that blocks the saving of the data - will fix this for 1.5.9.
> 
> 
> Greetings,
> John
> 
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HaJo Schatz <[email protected]>
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