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

[Gilles Caulier]

2009/9/6 Andi Clemens <andi.clemens at gmx.net>:
> 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?

Agree with Point 2. About moving or just rename, you need to see what
we must do with target folder view from BQM...

Gilles

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