Quick/smart single file rename in browser mode
Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 8:00 am
Some suggestions in making XnView a little more mouse friendly as well as getting the tedious job of image labeling under control.
1). To be a little more consistent with the rest of windows. Two single left hand mouse clicks (or perhaps a double click) over the FILENAME of a thumbnail in browser mode should equivalent to pressing F2.
2). The rename dialog box should borrow ideas from AJAX like dialog boxes at some web sites (or Firefox 3's new smart URL entry system). So the actual text window for the filename should have a drop down menu capability and present the user with a number of intelligent filename guesses. Those guesses could include looking at the name of the preceding file and incrementing a trailing or leading number by one, appending a date, etc. To make it even smarter, when the rename dialog box is first pulled up, if the user types in a character or two, the drop down menu should be populated with the names of previously named files that start with the same characters with any trailing number appropriately incremented.
I think this would a very helpful arrangement when people have to individually rename a number of files where a groups of files will share common root names.
One could take this concept quite a bit further by adding a drop down menu on the filename extension window as well and facilitate file type conversion.
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1). To be a little more consistent with the rest of windows. Two single left hand mouse clicks (or perhaps a double click) over the FILENAME of a thumbnail in browser mode should equivalent to pressing F2.
2). The rename dialog box should borrow ideas from AJAX like dialog boxes at some web sites (or Firefox 3's new smart URL entry system). So the actual text window for the filename should have a drop down menu capability and present the user with a number of intelligent filename guesses. Those guesses could include looking at the name of the preceding file and incrementing a trailing or leading number by one, appending a date, etc. To make it even smarter, when the rename dialog box is first pulled up, if the user types in a character or two, the drop down menu should be populated with the names of previously named files that start with the same characters with any trailing number appropriately incremented.
I think this would a very helpful arrangement when people have to individually rename a number of files where a groups of files will share common root names.
One could take this concept quite a bit further by adding a drop down menu on the filename extension window as well and facilitate file type conversion.
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