[PATCH] make ksnapshot increment the last number

[Jos Poortvliet]

On 10/2/07, Thomas Zander <zander at kde.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 October 2007 14:04:54 Richard Moore wrote:
> > On 10/2/07, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
> > > On Monday 01 October 2007, Hoàng Đức Hiếu wrote:
> > > >  I have attached a patch to use these two behaviour. A previously
> > > > created ksnapshotrc file may still specify old default filename
> > > > "snapshot1.png".
> > >
> > > patch looks good; i'll commit unless you have an snv account?
> >
> > I'd just point out that this is how it used to work, I changed it to
> > update the 1st number as too many people complained. I think this is
> > something that might end up needing to be configurable.
>
> Got a bugreport/mailthread with those complaints and their usecases?
> I'd be interrested to know what those that complained of increasing the last
> digits were doing/thinking :)

Indeed, I can't think of any reason why one would want that - unless
you use some silly date-scheme like DD-MM-YYYY ;-)

But seriously, such a date would be the only reason to have it
increase the first number, and to be honest, I think optimizing for
such a special case would be bad. I'm all for increasing the last
number, unless someone would be willing (and able) to add a special
case (with autodetect) for dates or something.

Making it configurable would be a bit overkill for something as simple
as this. I think ppl should just adjust the way they work (eg use the
YYYY-MM-DD date scheme if they insist on a date, or just use
DD-MM-YYYY-#).

> --
> Thomas Zander