[Gprename-users] Wailing, Anguish, Rending of clothes and Weeping

[Lacrocivious A. <alt...@ya...>]

Having grown accustomed to using GPRename on a regular
basis, I have recently upgraded one system to Fedora
Core 6 and discovered that this distro has abandoned
Gtk-perl entirely, due to its early Cretacious Period
dependencies.

Despite my best efforts, lame as they are, to rebuild
FC5 rpms so that I could use GPRename anyway, I have
encountered the limits of my poor knowledge in the
form of config.log death poems beyond my ability to
interpret.

It is astonishing to me that GPRename or its
equivalent is not a part of all core distros. No
matter the power of any CLI, there remain many
instances where the *visible* and *on-the-fly
selection* of files to rename are so much better
addressed by a GUI that the CLI becomes irrelevant.

I have hit similar barriers attempting to adapt
KRename to FC6, but I must say that I don't like the
way KRename does things in the first place. I have
become addicted to GPRename. And now I cannot have it.

No dog has ever howled more pitifully than I, upon
realizing that on my FC6 system at least, I cannot use
GPRename until it is ported to GTK2. Sneaking through
from another system via mount points does work, of
course, but it is such an ugly method in my view.

Unfortunately, I cannot program my way out of a simple
bash script, let alone contribute at the level
GPRename operates. The best I could offer is to be a
test animal, and to help edit the English
documentation should that be of any use.

In any case, I very much hope that Zurd and/or
Tristesse (a mailing list comment implies Tristesse
may have moved on) is actively working on a GTK2
update for GPRename.

If not, I hope you can sleep at night, knowing that I
remain here, disconsolate, wailing, tearing my clothes
while crouching on a mound of ashes, because I cannot
use GPRename as it exists on my FC6 machine ;-)



 
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