[Kde-imaging] [Bug 132220] Errors when trying to send pictures using thunderbird

[Jörg Hermsdorf]

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------- Additional Comments From yojoe schneebrett com  2006-08-20 17:04 -------
Would be good if renaming the files were just an option and not default, because often it is not desired (and needed) to have such complicated, technical sounding picture filenames in an email.
So my proposal is the following:

- 1st: originalFilename.newExtension is the default naming rule for pictures; if originalFilname contains spaces, they are escaped with backslashes (of course you need to check if just escaping them with backslashes is sufficient... but it should be, I guess you are passing the pictures on commandline basis to thunderbird!? Or do you use some kind of API interface?)

- 2nd: there is is an option to include the 'album name' in the new filename, used for situations where you need to send a lot of pictures

- 3rd: for experts, there is an audiocd like naming option (like in Control Center -> Sound & Multimedia -> Audio-CDs -> Names) where you can use placeholders to define the naming rule of the filenames for the converted pictures, e.g.:
%{albumname}-%{filename}_%{original_extension}.%{new_extension}
(Probably you can use a lot of the code from the audiocd module, or maybe there is already a KDE library for things like this?)

- 4th option: maybe some people would also like to have this: instead of adding the 'album name' to the filename, pictures are wrapped into an archive (using Ark) where 'album name' is a folder inside the archive and the pictures are placed inside this folder. This way you could send a lot of pictures within a single attachment, e.g. a .zip file :)