Re: [rox-devel] Feature Request: Renaming Files

[Christopher S. <che...@ya...>]

Agree...  But I also agree with Peter's assesment that the Rename window is a little small for a
good % of files.  Perhaps Geoff's solution of using the minibuffer would be a good direction?

Chris Shaffer

--- Thomas Leonard <ta...@ec...> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 03:40:56AM +0200, Peter Falter wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> > 
> > i was just looking around in freshmeat and the Debian Packages for a 
> > Filemanager with a feature the MacOS Finder has and which Nautilus had in 
> > former times: the simpelst form of renaming a file in the following behavior:
> > 
> > When the user klicks on one file and waits for about a second doing nothing 
> > the filename is selected as a whole and when you start typing the filename is 
> > changed to the new input.
> > An alternative behavior would be to klick a second time with short break
> > after the first one so that the filename is selected for changing.
> 
> Windows does this, and it's pretty bad UI-wise. People often rename
> instead of running, or vice versa. What we actually need is a 'Bulk
> rename' feature with options like 'Strip extensions', 'Regular expression
> search-and-replace', etc.
> 
> 
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