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Bug 642948 - Support image diff
Support image diff
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: meld
Classification: Other
Component: filediff
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: meld-maint
meld-maint
: 667271 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-02-22 08:49 UTC by Clément DAVID (IRC: davidcl)
Modified: 2017-12-13 18:54 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Clément DAVID (IRC: davidcl) 2011-02-22 08:49:43 UTC 
A great improvement of meld will be to diff images.

A first approach should be to render the 2 images into 2 view without performing any correlation between them.
Comment 1 Kai Willadsen 2012-01-06 20:18:04 UTC 
*** Bug 667271 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Luc Pi 2013-05-20 02:01:26 UTC 
The duplicated report points at [1] (github image comparison) as inspiration

https://github.com/blog/817-behold-image-view-modes
Comment 3 Henrik Heino 2015-01-26 23:59:45 UTC 
I made a bounty for this bug at https://www.bountysource.com/issues/1075639-support-image-diff

This is my first bounty and I'm not quite sure how that site works, so apologies if this comment is somehow spammy. I decided to post this just in case :)
Comment 4 Dekker 2015-03-11 14:54:35 UTC 
In addition to viewing the two images when clicked on, it would be handy to provide the thumbnail of the image in the local/remote window. This would provide a quick preview of obvious differences.
Comment 5 Kai Willadsen 2017-09-09 21:27:42 UTC 
The hardest part of this is that it means that folder and VC comparisons will, instead of always starting a text file comparison will sometimes start an image comparison. Since these would be different tab types, etc. the knock-on effects in complicating the code are significant.

Realistically, getting a side-by-side comparison view with no smarts isn't much work. However, the work to integrate it into the existing diff signals and tab launching infrastructure and the like is quite a bit of careful work.
Comment 6 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2017-12-13 18:54:36 UTC 
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