Move KRename to KDE CVS

[Dominik Seichter]

Am Mittwoch, 23. April 2003 19:23 schrieb Stefan Gehn:
> Moin,
>
> On Mittwoch April 23 2003 12:17, Dominik Seichter wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, 22. April 2003 12:02 schrieb Stephan Kulow:
> > > Sorry, I'm not convinced. I doubt batch renaming files is just an often
> > > done task that we need an extra KDE tool for it in the base
> > > distribution.
> >
> > I think it is quite usual, mainly for people which have digital photo
> > cameras and have to handle a lot of pictures and for people with bigger
> > music collections on their harddisks. KRename is extremly useful for this
> > tasks (and others, too).
>
> And don't forget simple things like converting all files in a directory to
> uppercase/lowercase or strip off some prefix/suffix. I for instance
> wouldn't know out of my head how to do that (mc would help me here but I
> prefer using konq) and reading docs like mad just to come up with your own
> script is not what desktop users want (and sometimes it just HAS to be
> fast).
That's right. And krename makes this stuff really easy.

> I'm all for adding krename, it surely needs a better UI (I prefer wizards
> for "first time" things, later they just annoy you) but that's nothing you
> cannot fix :)
Correct, the UI can and will be improved. But I think I can do it in CVS 
before the 3.2 release. Is there anyone else convinced to add it now? :-)

CU Dom
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