[Digikam-devel] Renaming in BQM should be a tool

[Andi Clemens]

Hi,

I think the renaming functionality should be moved into a tool in BQM. 
Sometimes you simply want to rename files.
Now that ManualRename can handle directory names and metadata, users might 
want to rename their files more often.

For example I like to name my files according to the underlying folder 
hierarchy:

fotos
|- 2008
   |- lalala
|- 2009
   |- someEvent

naming scheme:
[dir.]_[dir]_####_$

result:
2009_someEvent_0001_DSC2345.jpg

In the past I used krename to do so, but now we can handle this in digiKam as 
well. The problem is: I need to assign a dummy tool (convert to JPG for 
example) to get BQM working. But this is not a good workflow :-)

So we should either think of 
1. implementing an "empty dummy" tool that does nothing (stupid idea :-))
2. move renaming options into a tool and remove them from the BQM main window.

What do you think?
This renaming tool can then also be used to move files?

Andi