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

[Andi Clemens]

I will open two new BKO entries for this, it gets confusing having two 
different patches in here.

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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