Re: [Gprename-users] New Revision 17

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

First, regarding your speed improvements for the
actual renaming function, especially for large numbers
of files, I regret that I haven't had and probably
won't have a chance to test this for some days.
However, I applaud your efforts to make the utility
leaner and meaner ;-)


--- Zurd <zu...@ya...> wrote:

> There it's done :
> http://gprename.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/gprename/
> We're already at revision 17 though, I kind of
> messed up the
> deletion of the gprename-1.7 folder and had to do it
> a few times, 
> I'm really new to this SVN stuff and I still didn't
> finish the SVN 
> handbook :>

Whether intended or not, Revision 17 breaks the svn
checkout command I have been using. Specifically, the
command:

svn checkout
https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gprename
/usr/local

...does delete the old /usr/local/gprename-1.7
directory and its contents, but fails to create a new
/usr/local/gprename directory in its place. Thus, the
files and directories are partially written to
/usr/local ... partly, because the operation fails
when  attempting to create /usr/local/bin, which
already exists. Subsequent files are not copied.

I manually created /usr/local/gprename and altered the
svn command to:

svn checkout
https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gprename
/usr/local/gprename

...which works as I -- and I suspect, you -- intended.


> > Your 'automatic preview' option selection sounds
> fine
> > to me. That way we could toggle the feature on and
> off
> > at will.
> 
> Added in the last revision, see Options / Automatic
> preview

Thanks very much. This option toggle restores the
old-style operation which I prefer for most use, while
offering an easy on-the-fly change to the automatic
preview which is perfect for certain situations.

> > Also, please remember I am only one user, making
> one
> > user's suggestions ;-)
> 
> True, but since you're almost the only one to
> actually make
> a suggestion, I'll follow your advices because I
> have no idea
> what other people are thinking :-)

This is puzzling. I have wondered why there are not a
great many participants in at least the discussion of
GPRename. Perhaps -- this is only a guess -- many
linux users have learned the command line arguments to
write their own scripts or use one of several that
turn up in 'batch file rename' searches.

Because GPRename and KRename are the only two GUI
front ends I can remember seeing for these functions,
I would have expected a great deal more participation.
Even with mastery of command line arguments and/or
scripts to do the same job GPRename does, there is for
me no genuine comparison. Those of us who are more
visually oriented prefer to see what we're doing, even
if we know how to do the job without the graphic
representation.

As I mentioned before, I don't understand why
GPRename's functions are not already a part of
Konqueror and Nautilus ;-)




 
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