Batch rename and prefix vs suffix

[Tim Jenness]

The Batch rename kipi-plugin looks exactly what I need to be able to rename all my videos to include a timestamp (since videos don't usually get metadata like that [although AVCHD files do] and exiv2 can't write anything) *except* that it only seems to allow me to prepend the original filename to the date rather than append the file name. The reason I want to prepend the date is so that normal filesystem listings will easily sort the files in date order. Appending the date to the original does not give me correct sorting properties. Am I missing something really obvious or should I submit a patch?

Tim

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On Sunday 19 July 2009 08:00:42 Tim Jenness wrote:
> The Batch rename kipi-plugin looks exactly what I need to be able to rename
> all my videos to include a timestamp (since videos don't usually get
> metadata like that [although AVCHD files do] and exiv2 can't write
> anything) *except* that it only seems to allow me to prepend the original
> filename to the date rather than append the file name. The reason I want to
> prepend the date is so that normal filesystem listings will easily sort the
> files in date order. Appending the date to the original does not give me
> correct sorting properties. Am I missing something really obvious or should
> I submit a patch?

In future Batch Queue Manager will be used for such tasks in digiKam where you
have full control about renaming.

Although I suspect patch would be welcome by all kipi-plugins users outside of
digiKam :)

m.
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[Gilles Caulier-4]

2009/7/19 Mikolaj Machowski <[hidden email]>:

> On Sunday 19 July 2009 08:00:42 Tim Jenness wrote:
>> The Batch rename kipi-plugin looks exactly what I need to be able to rename
>> all my videos to include a timestamp (since videos don't usually get
>> metadata like that [although AVCHD files do] and exiv2 can't write
>> anything) *except* that it only seems to allow me to prepend the original
>> filename to the date rather than append the file name. The reason I want to
>> prepend the date is so that normal filesystem listings will easily sort the
>> files in date order. Appending the date to the original does not give me
>> correct sorting properties. Am I missing something really obvious or should
>> I submit a patch?
>
> In future Batch Queue Manager will be used for such tasks in digiKam where you
> have full control about renaming.
>
> Although I suspect patch would be welcome by all kipiplugins users outside of
> digiKam :)
>

As Mik said, use Bugzilla, in kipiplugins/batchprocessimages section,
to post a patch against svn trunk code :

http://www.digikam.org/contrib

https://bugs.kde.org/component-report.cgi?product=kipiplugins

Gilles Caulier
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