[Krename-users] KRename 3.0.0 is out

[Dominik S. <dom...@we...>]

Hi,

You can finally download KRename 3.0.0 from www.krename.net ! :-)
I appended the complete ChangeLog! 

Thanks to everyone who helped to get this release out and make it as good as 
it is!

CU Dom

Changes from KRename 2.8.x to KRename 3.0.0
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	KIO-Slave Support:

	KRename supports now the KIO-Slave technology of KDE. As a reason
	it is no problem for KRename to rename files on a remote server with fish://,
	to rename files on your ftp server or to rename your samba shares
	using the smb:// io-slave. 

	DCOP Scripting:

	This is the first version of KRename which can be fully controlled
	from the commandline. Additional to the the commandline options,
	there is now a powerful DCOP interface. Using DCOP you can create
	scripts for many tasks which do use KRename. You can even use
	KRename's parser allone, without the other parts of KRename.
	
	Usabillity:

	Thanks to the kde-usabillity mailinglist, we made lot's of
	useabillity improvements, resulting in the easiest to use KRename
	ever. The most notably change is the new beginners/wizard mode, which is
	much easier to use compared to the more complex, but more
	powerful, tabbed mode. User visible strings where changed in
	favour if easier to understand ones, button orders where changed
	to the KDE default, dialog layouts where optimized and much more... 

	A few examples:
	-Every renaming action can be undone, because of the new auto-undo
	feature, which works even for remote files.
	-A powerful beginners mode, which allows you to construct new
	filenames without having to know KRenames syntax.
	-Plugins got easier, too. Most of them do not have to be enabled
	before you can use them. All KFilePlugins are instantly available
	to use.
	-The annyoing "Do you really want to quit KRename?" message box
	was removed.
	-KRename will ask now to create not existing directories instead
	of complaining.
	-We fixed the enabled/disabled state of many buttons
	-There is now only one button to add files, directories and
	directory names
	-The file extension configuration got much easier, as it can be
	done from the main dialog.
	-The preferences dialog got cleaned up.

	KRename Commands:

	A few new tokens where also introduced to access different
	properties of a file, i.e. [user], [group], [modificationdate],
	[creationdate] and [accessdate]. 
	Another new token is the [length] token, returning the length of
	the current filename. This token is very powerful as you can also
	substract numbers from this value (e.g.: [length-2]) and use the
	result to construct a new sub string [2-[length-2]]. 	
	The sub string token got more powerful,	too. It can not only
	create sub strings of the input filename, but also of all other
	strings (e.g. the title of an mp3 file): [2-8{[mp3title]}].
	All tokens returning numbers can format those numbers now. An
	example is the [mp3tracknumber] command which returns "7" in our
	case, but we need "07" to get a good looking filename. Easy with
	the new KRename feature, just use [##mp3tracknumber] as token and
	you'll get "07" returned.
	
	Speed - KRename is faster:

	We were able to improve the speed of KRename in many smaller
	cases. For example the loading of file preview is much faster now
	compared to previous versions. Sorting of files uses a fater
	algorithm now. And a few other small things where improved. In
	future versions we also want to address the long loading times of
	KRename. The startup time can be greatly reduced if you disable
	the loading of KDE's File Plugins (which takes about 80% of
	KRename's startup time). 

	Bugs:

	Yes - even KRename contained some bugs ;-).
	And we fixed them. If you had problems with one of them in
	previous releases, you might want to give KRename a try again:
	-Regular expressions are finally working correctly
	-Fixed the [date] token
	-Fixed creation of directories, containing characters like '&' or
	'%',  during renaming
	-Fixed the main window size, scrollbars are now always visible


And that's not all of course! KRename got many detail fixes and smaller
improvements - far to many to mention them all in this ChangeLog.
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