[kiwidude]

Originally Posted by chaley

Tried it. Good stuff!

I have several intentional duplicates -- books in French and English where the title is not translated. I await the non-dup marking with bated breath.

Yeah I have gotten a bit sidetracked with fire-fighting on some other plugins - it is "almost" there but just need to implement the "mark group as not duplicate" function once I realised that doing it based on individual pairs of rows would be problematic.

A suggestion: an option to see the union of all groups, sorted by title. Use case: when I run similar title/ignore author, I get 6 groups where each group contains two books. I could tell at a glance if these are correct by seeing them all, sorted by title.

Seeing all the books that were flagged as duplicates and then sorting them by title is certainly easily doable. Of course in this "mode" you wouldn't be able to see what was matched with what from a group perspective, but if the titles start with the same characters (or there are not many) you will work it out. You could always drop in and out of "Next group" mode at any point.

A variant of this would be to show me all the books and have 'change group' use highlighting the books in a particular group.

Is that not the same effect as just turning on highlighting that you can do now? I just tried it, the green highlights select the different rows. The problem is that without the custom column I have no way of sorting the results to appear together...

Behavior oddity: The first time I press next-group after having run the finder, nothing happens. I need to press it again. I suspect that this happens because the first group is already displayed, and the first press displays it again.

Yeah that's one of several quirks that are in that version that are fixed in the next one

Minor suggestion: I would prefer to see the tests listed with title first. Rationale: all of the tests do something with the title, but some ignore the author. In my mind, that makes title 'superior' to author, so I want to see it first.

Good suggestion, will do it.

Minor suggestion: add a 'next group' action so I can add it to my toolbar/menu bar.

Already exists. Add the plugin to your toolbar now. When you click on the button the first time, it detects you have no duplicate groups so pops up with the Find Duplicates dialog. Once you have duplicate groups, clicking it again is the same as next group (and ctrl+click on it for the previous group, though perhaps that may be more useful to have as "Show all duplicate books").

I used to have a qeustion dialog in between, so that when you click the buton the first time it said something like "You have no duplicate groups, do you want to run a search now" or whatever, but that was painful since the obvious answer was "yes". When you resolve the last of your duplicate groups you will already get a dialog telling you there are no more, so the user is well warned that the next time they click on that button it will popup with the find dialog. The only concern I have that is proven by you is the discoverability that clicking on the button is the same as next result once you have clicked find.