TODO

STEVEN: Drag and Drop for KRenameModel and PreviewModel

DOM: Create method Plugin::createTokenHelpString( token, help ), which
   puts the token in brackets and concatenates using
   Plugin::S_TOKEN_SEPARATOR, to avoid ugly concatenations in code
DOM: Create header file with constants for all groups and config keys
DOM: Copying extremely slows
DOM: Display in Realtime Preview a new first column which contains a small warning icons
     If the new and the old filename are identical
DOM: Kontext menü im advance mode für alle text boxen:
     Insert -> Filename To Lowercase
            -> Filename To Upercase
	    -> Number
	    -> Date
	    -> ...

=========================
> I want to rename a load of TV episodes which currently do not have the
> episode names in the file name. I want to be able to have an external text
> file which contains each episode name on a new line, or comma-separated, or
> something else.

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Oh, there is one other thing I just thought about, not related to your
changes but related to sorting in general.  It'd be nice to be able to
reorder items using drag-and-drop.  Sometimes I have an item that, for
example may be stuck last but I want it to be first, and as things stand now
I have to highlight that item and repeatedly click the Up button.  It'd be
handy to be able to just drag it from the bottom to the top of the list.

Not sure how difficult something like that would be to implement, but I
wouldn't mind throwing it on the wishlist.  :-)
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(This is with using v4.0.4)
When using "Insert Part of Filename..." under the advanced renamer,
KRename has problems with at least the following special characters
when in file names: #$[]%&*\
Instead of seeing those characters as a single character, it sees them
as two characters, such as '[' being seen as '\['. This screws up the
output names.

A couple examples using "for example [[[this is ]a test file.txt" to
illustrate the problem follows:

[$1;13] gives:
"for example \"
expected:
"for example ["

[$16-[length]] gives:
"[[this is ]a test .txt"
expected:
"this is ]a test file.txt"

This bug makes KRename useless for me at times, and it would be nice
if it was fixed. Also, bug 3018407 on the bugtracker appears to be the
same issue.
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I forgot to mention in my prior e-mail, but I also noticed that the
encoding conversion plugin seems to be missing from KRename for KDE 4.

If it's not, I'd like to request a more discoverable interface. If it
is, I'd like to request that it be re-added.

Thanks

-- 
Stephan Sokolow
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Stonki: Thumbnails auch im rename-tab fenster
========================================
Here's some feedback on it. I like it, but the "find and replace"
function was unclear. Was it finding and replacing parts of the
filename, or inside the contents of the files?
========================================
Thanks for making krename, it is truly a great piece of software. It saved
me litteraly hours of painful work in sorting the hundreds of photographs
given to us by at least a dozen different people for our wedding. It would
have taken me ages to sort them by hand.

This is only a small donation but I hope it will help in making krename
even better.

I had sent my comments earlier but to mention them again here are the only
4 problems I have faced with krename (all relate to beginner mode, 'add
files' section), none of them are show-stoppers bwt :) :

1) in thumbnail view, when selecting a block of files to move around, they
get copied to their destination in reverse order

2) for some reason, the thumbnails do not always display (as in, the image
thumbnails do not show, they stay as file type icons instead) when I select
add files and only 'show thumbnail' is selected ('show file name' not
checked). However, if I select add files with only 'show file name'
checked, and THEN (after files are shown in list) check 'show thumbnails',
then all the thumbnails will show properly.

Cheers and thanks again for this great piece of software.
========================================
Hallo


Erst mal vielen Dank für das Programm; es sparte mir eine Menge Zeit 
beim Re-Organisieren meiner MP3-Sammlung.

Dabei habe ich es ziemlich oft benutzt, und mir sind einige Dinge 
aufgefallen, die vielleicht verbessert werden könnten. (Ich beziehe mich 
auf die Version 2.8.5. Falls eine neuere Version da ist, die meine 
Anmerkungen überflüssig macht, verzeih mir bitte):
- Beim Hinzufügen von Verzeichnissen werden die selbst definierten 
Filter (*.mp3) und die Einstellung für "Unterverzeichnisse rekursiv 
hinzufügen" nicht gespeichert; vor allem die Rekursivität hat mich 
genervt, weil ich die immer wieder vergessen hab.

Dankeschön für deine Mühe!

Regards/MfG,
Christian Weiske
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Hi,

Ich habe ein paar verbesserungsvorschläge für Dein super Tool KRename:

-) Bei den Plugins für auf KFilePlugins zurückgreifen, listest Du all ihre 
möglichen Felder auf. I fände es sehr hilfreich, wenn der ausgewählte 
Platzhalter automatisch bei einem Doppelklick darauf an Cursorposition in das 
Eingabefeld für das Namensmuster eingefühgt würde.
Für die Übersicht wäre es auch schön, wenn dieses Eingabefeld nochmal (ohne 
drop-down menü) unter den plugins sichtbar wäre....

-) Wäre es möglich, als Startwert nicht nur eine Zahl (0, 1, 2,...) sondern 
auch Buchstaben (a, b, c, ... / A, B, C, ...) angeben zu können?

-) Es wäre super, wenn man verschiedene Zähler seperat definieren könnte. zB. 
mit einem Tabinterface für den Konfigurationsdialog "1. Zähler", "2. Zähler", 
etc, wenn mehr als eine ##-Grupe im Muster auftaucht

-) Was ich immer wieder brauche ist eine reset-Bedingung, die den Zähler 
wieder auf seinen Startwert setzt, so das er quasi im Kreis zählt (1, 2, 3, 
1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3,... mit 3 als reset)
Ich könnte mir das als eine Zeile mit
Checkbox "reset bei"; Combobox "<self> | 1. Zähler | 2. Zähler | ..."; 
Combobox "> | >= | = | <= | <"; Spinbox für Zahl

-) Was ich persönlich seltener brauche, für manche aber bestimmt hilfreich 
ist, wäre die Möglichkeit auch Schrittweiten a la "1/2" od. "1/3" zuzulassen.
Im Falle "1/3" würde dann so gezählt: "1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 
5, ..."

Gruss,
Jonas
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On Sat June 12 2004 04:40 am, Dominik Seichter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This idea is also a good idea. KRename had a similar feature already in
> earlier version (but not that powerful - you could only specify a fixed
> tag). I do not know if this will be possible in 3.1 but I promisse that I
> will look into this issue.
>
> CU Dom
>
> Am Freitag, 11. Juni 2004 05:51 schrieben Sie:
> > At present you have tags to take information from a file and rename the
> > file.
> >
> > Now think in reverse - krename plugins allow the possibility for a
> > multiple format tagger.
> >
> > So a new tab would allow....
> >
> > artist - track - title - xxx.ogg
> >
> > to be parse with the following command
> >
> > [Artist] - [Track] - [Title] - xxx
> >
> > The info then could be written to the file tag.
> >
> > Also the inclusion of modifiers (and Search & Replace) allow for the
> > information to be cleaned up before it is written.
> >
> > Phoenix

This was inspired from using Cantus.

TTC Timothy Taylor - Economics Lecture 20-A Global Economic Perspective.mp3
Please enter the formatting string (%t - %s): TTC %a - %b %g %t-%s

Feedback...
20 A Global Economic Perspective ~ Timothy Taylor ~ Economics ~ 0 ~ Lecture

The course is "Economics"
%b stands for aBlum

Now I could have done %x %a - %x %x %t-%s or variations there of
%x stands for ignore.

powerful concept, no? Like I said, krename has one extra twist no one else has
done yet - multiple file formats

And for another wow: combine the actions so the following happens
filename -> tag -> filename
This is what part of my script does.

The only usability issue is the length of the tag names themselves,
TTC [artist] - [album] [genre] [track]-[title]
Is a tad long to write, no?
[x] for ignore?

Of course a drop-down combo "memory" would help.

I hope my "annoyance" is helpful, Phoenix
===================================================================
[23:32:12] <Keimix> BTW  is there a possibility to load just one of the kfile-plugins at krename startup, because loading all slows krename down alot?
[23:35:49] <domseichter> No, not yet. But it's a good idea. Strange that I did not have it and nobody asked me for this feature!
===================================================================
"Squashing weird characters" sollte auf die ToDO liste
===================================================================
> Remark Dom, 4-10-2004
> - Add a random token (maybe even a random number and a random string token)
>   In the first case the range and in the latter case the length should be specified
 
=================================================================== 
Arpad Biro <biro_arpad@yahoo.com>:

----------------------


an undo script bug:

  1. cd to a temporary dir (for example /tmp)
  2. touch file1
     mkdir dir1
     touch dir1/file2
  3. rename the above 3 items (use the "Add directory names with filenames" option),
     and also create an undo script
  4. run the undo script

The directory is renamed back first, and the file in it cannot be renamed back.

other text-related things
-------------------------


The "WARNING..." string in the encoding conversion plugin is unlocalizable.
===================================================================

----------  Weitergeleitete Nachricht  ----------

Subject: krename - vorschlaege/diskussion
Date: Dienstag, 13. September 2005 00:41
From: Christian Goehl <pastulio@gmx.net>
To: support@stonki.de

Hello, as you live in germany I assume you speak German. If not,
 tell me.

Wenn man ueber den dsdirselectdialog Dateien/Ordner hinzufuegt und
 die Anzahl enorm ist (70gb mp3s), wird die aktuelle kde session
 beendet. Man kann noch den Crash-Handler sehen. Wahrscheinlich ist
 das ein Bug in KFileDialog oder in Qt. Als Ausweg kann man
 natuerlich die Dateien via D'n'D hinzufuegen, allerdings kann hat
 man dann nicht die vielseitigen Optionen des Dialogs.

Nun aber zu meinem eigentlichen Anliegen: Ich besitze eine riesige
Musiksammlung, leider sind aber nicht alle Dateien einheitlich
 benannt. Generell waere es mit Krename schon moeglich diese zu
 vereinheitlichen, es ist aber sehr aufwendig, vorallem weil es
 keine Verallgemeinerung von Dateitypen(z.B. Audiodatei) gibt, so
 muss man immer beide Tags fuer mp3 und ogg einfuegen.

Desweiteren waere eine Art KI wuenschenswert, welche bei bestimmten
Stichwoertern wie zum Beispiel "Unbekannt, unknown, track" anhand
 des Ordnernamens und MusicBrainz oder CDDB Vorschlaege zum taggen
 macht.

Vielleicht kann man auch noch einen Normalisierer einbauen, wobei
 ich mir nicht genauch vorstellen kann, wie aufwendig sowas ist.

Die oben genannten Vorschlaege sind nicht unbedingt als eine
 Erweiterung zu Krename zu sehen, vielleicht sollten sie auch in
 einer getrennten Anwendung realisiert werden. Denn der Vorgang
 sollte auch fuer Anfaenger einfach sein. Moeglicherweise kommt
 auch einfach ein neues Profil in Frage.

Ich waere bereit an diesem Projekt mitzuarbeiten, obgleich meine
Programmierfaehigkeiten eher im Hobbybereich liegen. Dennoch habe
 ich schon Erfahrungen mit KDE/Qt gesammelt.

MfG,
Christian Goehl

==================================================
[14:43:43] <[Stonki]> 1) Man kann kein existierendes Profil ?berschreiben !
[14:44:33] <Dom64> ok, stimmt das sollte möglich sein.
[14:44:37] <Dom64> Kann man leicht hinzugeben
[14:45:41] <[Stonki]> und bei den profilen m?chte ich noch paar andere EInstellungen sein
[14:46:15] <[Stonki]> zum beispiel rufe ich krename ?ber krusader auf. Da w?re eine option bei den profilen toll, in der man automatisch im Reiter "Dateiname" landet
[14:46:24] <[Stonki]> und NACH dem umbenennen automatisch krename schliessen
[14:46:54] <Dom64> Praktisch einen "Profile Settings" Dialog mit:
[14:46:58] <Dom64> -> Krename Default Page
[14:46:59] <[Stonki]> und man sollte anzeigen lassen, WAS bei den profilen eigentlich nun gespeichert wird
[14:47:04] <Dom64> -> Close Krename after renaming
[14:47:23] <[Stonki]> -> Behaviour after renaming
[14:47:30] <[Stonki]> rather than just closing
[14:47:47] <Dom64> Ok, und da evtl. auch alles zum ändern. Also dass man dort auch direkt zum beispiel das template umstellen kann.
[14:47:58] <Dom64> Stimmt, kann man ja mehr optionen machen als nur schliessen.
[14:48:25] <[Stonki]> viel spass :)
[14:48:29] <[Stonki]> UND
[14:48:56] <Dom64> *g
[14:49:01] <[Stonki]> es ging doch irgendwie die tracknummer von MP3 songs automatisch nach ## zu formatieren, oder ?
[14:49:25] <[Stonki]> und das wird dann puenktlich zu kde 3.5 krename 3.50 :)
[14:50:27] <Dom64> ja [###mp3TrackNumber]
[14:50:41] <Dom64> einfach beliebig viele #'s voranstellen, geht bei jeder zahl die von einem plugin kommt
[14:50:53] <Dom64> KRename 3.50 :)

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[quote]
1. If I select files in Konqueror and then right click too select actions|krename, then it takes me to the [files] section - but it would be more efficient to go straight to [filenames]. 
[/quote]
This was fixed some time ago. But does not work with the latest release. I will fix it for the next version.

========

Hello,

This is a great software but there is a powerful feature that I'd like 
to see in the future.
When you use the 'find and replace' feature, you only can give rules 
that apply on the original filename. Why don't give the possibility to 
apply a new rule on the original file changed by the past rules ?
An exemple :

the original file : "artist - the song.mp3"

the result I want : "artist__the_song.mp3"

The way I did that on windows (in the past :-) ) with emusic tag editor :
rule 1 " " --> "_" the current filename is "artist_-_the_song.mp3"
rule 2 "-" --> "_" the current filename is "artist___the_song.mp3"
rule 3 "___" --> "__" the current filename is "artist__the_song.mp3"

With this software, rules n applies on the filename modified by rules 
n-1, n-2, n-p and so on (this could be annoying, that's why the best is 
to give the possibility to have the present behaviour or 'my' feature 
enabled).


With the current version (ok, I only have 3.03) it is not possible to do 
so in one shot. With the pas example :

Find and replace:
- add " " --> "_"
- add "-" --> "_"
- add "___" --> "__"  ==> no effect because there is no such string in 
the original filename.
The result is "artist___the_song.mp3".

I could tried
- add " - " --> __
- add " " --> _
There is a conflict and not all the changes are applied.

Thank you for your response.

Best regards.

mailto : benoit.turpin@ecl2005.ec-lyon.fre

============

Package: krename
Version: 3.0.9 3.5.1, Debian Package 4:3.5.1-4 (testing/unstable)
Severity: wishlist
Compiler: Target: x86_64-linux-gnu
OS: Linux 2.6.15-1-amd64-k8-smp x86_64 (Debian Package 4:3.5.1-4 (testing/unstable))

In konqueror file management, say you right-click on a file and select krename from actions. When krename comes up and displays the chosen file, click Add. 

Current behavior: the file selector opens in the user's home directory.

Requested behavior: open in the same directory as the currently chosen file.

Great program!
Dave
======================
I just thought that krename is a great tool! And could be best: due its 
integration with konqueror it could manage a download directory in such 
manner that when a batch of files just arrives ( may be downloaded by kget), 
krename renames it and then moves it to another directory, keeping track of 
its activities, so the recent arrives never collides with elder files.

Please, excuse my poor english.

Best regards,

Marcelo Mazini.
==========================

Hi, I download many scientific articles, usualy in pdf or ps, with httrack. When on my disk, names are often like 4523.pdf and I would like to use krename as :
Withdraw title property in document to use it as a new fiel in rename items. If title property do not exist, use some heuristic to find the best candidate (say for example, in the first pages, usually the very first one, center aligned, biggest font size, bold, uppercase, and a ponderation rule of all this kind of criteria).
Hope you like it and that it will be available. Let me now. I remain at your disposal if you want to discuss this feature. Best regards,
Laurent.

 ~~
It is a good idea to add a feature to KRename so that you can check wether a token is empty (doesn't exist) and only use it if it does exist and use something else if it does not exist. I will try to add something to the next version.

Unfortunately it would be a too big issue to add support for extracting headlines from a PDF file to KRename. This would require a complete PDF parser in KRename. If you want this functionallity it is better to write an external tool and use KRename's command plugin.

best regards,
   Dom
==========================

Morgen!

Danke für die Idee. Das ist auf jeden Fall sinvoll, werde ich für die nächste Version hinzufügen.

CU Dom

Am Friday, 1. December 2006 19:38 schrieben Sie:
> Kam gerade im Chat
>
> Bei den Settings von krename einstellen, wie viele Dateien er
> wirklich anzeigt im Preview Fenster. Default: unlimited, aber wenn
> man wirklich mal 10.000 Dateien umbenennt, dann kann man das z.B
> auf 200 stellen, er macht das preview dann nur für 200 und erst
> beim eigentlich start dann alle 10.000
>
>
> cu
> stonki

==========================
hi there
it would be kewl to have a menu option (like kdiff3) with which you could directly access the last few rename patterns.. 
f.e I used $_[modificationdate;yyyy-MM-dd_hh-mm] a few times within the past few minutes on a single file and each time 
had to do more clicks than necessary if there were such a feature.. what do you think?
regards marcel
P.S.: and I tried sending this via the report feature but got:
Unable to send the bug report.
Please submit a bug report manually...
See http://bugs.kde.org/ for instructions.
Server said: "550 5.7.0 Need to authenticate via SMTP-AUTH-Login {mp049}"

By the way will your genius tool be on board for KDE4 ??