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

[Gilles Caulier]

yes it's better. I don't find yet time to check why where is the
dysfunction in your patch...

Gilles

2009/9/11 Andi Clemens <andi.clemens at gmx.net>:
> 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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