Thanks, Bengt, I think I'll take over ;) of course no promise on delivery also ;) I have to check the f-spot architecture and source first.
I'll check the code you have attached. Lev Bengt Thuree wrote: > Hi > > I am planning to do an extension for renaming photos. > But no promise on delevery time yet... :) So if you have time and > energy :) go ahead... > > I would not choose the path you have done though. > What I was planning to do is to rename / move the physical photo (and > all its versions) to the new name/place, and then also update the > database accordingly. > Of course, you need to check that if anything goes wrong you revert back > to the old state. > Do a hard link instead of moving could also be an option. > > I put code for this in a bug on bugzilla for renaming photos two years > ago or so. Should be possible to re-use / re-factor that code and use > it. > > /Bengt > > On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 10:23 +0400, Lev Danielyan wrote: > >> Hi, guys, >> >> I'm new to this community, so let me introduce myself, I'm Lev, 27 y.o. >> and work as a verification engineer. >> >> I've been using f-spot for a while now to organize the huge collection >> of my photos, mainly my kids ;) >> The only thing I am missing here is, actually, a batch rename >> functionality with some fancy stuff like embedding >> exif info into the file name, like date etc. >> >> So I started writing an extension. And this is where I need you help. >> The main file operations I plan will be renaming the files inplace, >> rename-copy to destination and rename-move to destination. >> >> The problem is that the selected files that I grab from the main f-spot >> window will eventually get changed (in terms of file name) and the db >> will need to be changed also, >> so I plan to have a checkbox to give users an option to "reimport" the >> changed files into the DB. >> And the question is what would be the correct way to do it? Some code >> snippet would be very valuable :) >> >> Thanks, >> Lev >> >> PS. I hope I made my point clear :) >> _______________________________________________ >> F-spot-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list >> >> _______________________________________________ F-spot-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list
