[dot] KRename 3.0: File Renaming Made Easy

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URL: http://dot.kde.org/1089074556/

From: Dominik Seichter <domseichter at web.de>
Dept: uppercase-filenames-are-bad
Date: Tuesday 06/Jul/2004, @02:42

KRename 3.0: File Renaming Made Easy
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   After a long development phase a new stable release of KRename
[http://www.krename.net/] is available for download. KRename is a
powerful batch file renamer for KDE, which can be used to rename lots of
files at once. Thus it is a great help in managing your digital images
or your music collection. In 3.0.0 we focused not only on adding new
features but also on increasing the overall usability of the
application.

     Besides doing the usual stuff, like changing filenames to lower
case or appending numbers to them, KRename uses Konqueror's
[http://www.konqueror.org/] file plugins to access meta data such as ID3
tags of MP3 or Ogg Vorbis files or EXIF tags of JPEG images from your
digital camera. If you want to see KRename's capabilities you might want
to check out our screenshot section
[http://www.krename.net/Screenshots.11.0.html].

     The most important improvement in this release could only happen
thanks to the KDE Usability Project [http://usability.kde.org/]. We got
many good suggestions and tips for improvements from their mailing list.
Those suggestions were added to KRename and made using it really easy
compared to previous versions. A new beginners mode was added. Using
this mode you can rename your files without having to know KRename's
renaming syntax. The overall GUI was cleaned up. We added an automatic
undo function. Using this undo, you can undo your renaming operation
immediately in case something went wrong. Additionally many smaller
improvements were made.

     Finally there is also documentation
[http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/krename/krename-3.0.0.pdf?download]
for KRename. The PDF documentation describes both user modes of KRename
and contains lots of examples for different task you might encounter in
your daily life.

     And last but not least we improved KDE integration of KRename.
KRename can now handle remote files thanks to KIO slaves. Renaming files
on a remote server using fish:// or even ftp:// is no problem anymore!
Controlling KRename from the command line is now possible, too, thanks
to our DCOP
[http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/kdeqt/dcop.html]
interface.

     Besides the above mentioned changes we were able to fix lots of
bugs, increase KRename's speed and add some more new features. You can
find a complete change log on our webpage www.krename.net
[http://www.krename.net/] as well as the downloads.