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

[Andi Clemens]

I just rethought this.
Maybe we should keep BQM the way it is and just change the action in digiKam's 
iconview?
Intead of presenting the dialog we have right now, present an advanced version 
with the ManualRename utility and some listview to see the updated names.

For me this workflow makes much more sense at the moment.

Or we could keep the rename tool (the good think will be that we can have 
different queues with separate renaming rules) and just add the ManualRename 
utility to the rename action (F2), too.

Andi

On Sunday 06 September 2009 13:43:46 Andi Clemens wrote:
> 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
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