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

[Gilles Caulier]

First test in progress... I like this.

Your patch is uncomplete. rename batch tool is not enabled, and
Renaming rules iew on the bottom left still there.

For the rest, i will take a look indeep to see what's wrong.

Gilles

2009/9/6 Andi Clemens <andi.clemens at gmx.net>:
> Another problem I have not thought about:
>
> Renaming actually is a move operation, and we need to stay in the source
> directory.
> Example:
>
> file A: 2006/bla/blub01.jpg
> file B: 2009/bla/blubbb01.jpg
> file C: 2008/blaaaa/blub01.jpg
>
> Rename string: [dir.]_[dir]_$
>
> expected result:
>
> file A: 2006/bla/2006_bla_blub01.jpg
> file B: 2009/bla/2009_bla_blubbb01.jpg
> file C: 2008/blaaa/2008_blaaa_blub01.jpg
>
> But currently the files will be copied to the target folder (eg. 'newfiles'):
>
> file A: newfiles/2006_bla_blub01.jpg
> file B: newfiles/2009_bla_blubbb01.jpg
> file C: newfiles/2008_blaaa_blub01.jpg
>
> How do we solve this?
> One way to do this is to simply count the assigned tools. If 'Rename' is the
> only tool, ignore the target folder, otherwise copy to the destination file.
>
> Any other suggestions?
>
> Andi
>
> On Sunday 06 September 2009 23:07:38 Andi Clemens wrote:
>> I have uploaded the tool, but it is not activated yet.
>> This patch will deactivate the old renaming widget and enable the tool.
>> But starting the queue isn't working, any idea what I need to do?
>>
>> Andi
>>
>> On Sunday 06 September 2009 15:23:21 Andi Clemens wrote:
>> > It is not that easy, at least with current implementation.
>> > The problem is that we need to return the parsed string while the user is
>> > typing, which is not possible at the moment.
>> > A tool will only operate when the queue is running.
>> >
>> > My suggestion would be to add some signal to the BatchTool base class
>> > that can emit "status messages".
>> > For example a tool using an external lib could sent a failure notice etc.
>> > This way the ManualRename utility could simply sent the parsed name as a
>> > "status message" and paste it into the queue list target column.
>> >
>> > What do you think? I guess this should work and can be used by other
>> > tools, too, so it will be not that hackish :D
>> >
>> > Andi
>> >
>> > On Sunday 06 September 2009 13:50:53 Gilles Caulier wrote:
>> > > 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
>> > >
>> > > > Andi
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