[Digikam-devel] [Bug 207053] New: Replace current renaming in AlbumUI with ManualRename utility

[Andi Clemens]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207053

           Summary: Replace current renaming in AlbumUI with ManualRename
                    utility
           Product: digikam
           Version: 1.0.0-beta5
          Platform: unspecified
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: Albums GUI
        AssignedTo: digikam-devel at kde.org
        ReportedBy: andi.clemens at gmx.net


Version:           1.0.0-beta5 (using 4.3.1 (KDE 4.3.1), Arch Linux)
Compiler:          gcc
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.30-ARCH

Renaming in digiKam is not very intuitive at the moment.
To rename multiple files, you either need to

a) use the KIPI Batchplugins (not very powerful for renaming)
b) use BQM 

The problem with b) is that you need to copy the files to a new target folder
first (and apply some batch tool, otherwise BQM doesn't start).
This problem can be solved with a dedicated RenameTool for BQM, which will be
another bugreport.

The general renaming issue could be fixed with a renaming dialog based on the
ManualRename utility, that is used in CameraUI and BQM now.
It is capable of adding a lot of information to the filename, like metadata
etc.

I will provide a patch in this bugreport that will make use of a
ManualRenameDialog widget, that can replace the current renaming method in
AlbumUI.

The only problem at the moment is that it is very slow, I guess because every
rename action will create a separate kio_file process.

Gilles, Marcel,

any idea how to make this faster?
If you use the patch, PLEASE test it only with a few images, not 3000 files or
so :-)

I think this feature is quite important, because renaming with BQM only is
confusing, especially for new users (and at the moment renaming actually isn't
working anyway, it is more a copy action that also requires at least one
assigned tool).

Andi

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