[Krename-users] Feature request: relative links

[Kai H. <hfm...@gm...>]

Hi,

I'd like to request a feature: as you know, the tool has a function to
create symbolic links.
The shell command "ln" has a function to create relative symbolic links:
it's "ln -s -r". But that works only with one file per shell command –
if you want to make many symbolic links of this type, it can be a bit
annoying. "cp" hasn't a function for that, too.
It would be great, if there would be a possibility to use that option in
krename. I think, it shouldn't be a problem, because krename uses "ln"
to create symbolic links, as I suppose. In addition, to create many
symbolic links with a graphical tool is much more comfortable than to do
that task with a shell command.

For what purpose may that? In some cases, you want to copy a directory
structure (which include symbolic links) to a portable storage medium,
e. g. an USB flash drive or CD/DVD. Then, you must use relative symbolic
links, because the path isn't the same on the portable medium as on your
local file system.

I had that situation with music files that I made from YouTube-Videos.
There were videos files from the same singers in different YouTube
channels, and on the other side, in some YouTube channels were videos
from different singers. So, I saved that in directories that are named
after the YouTube channels, but I want that sort secondly after the
singers. Thus, I had to use relative links, if I want to copy that
directory structure on a portable storage medium and copy that then to
another computer.

I would be very happy if you could a such feature to krename.

Kai