I miss a way to easily rename images from within gwenview.
Key F2 would be perfect IMHO.

Is there a way a haven't seen?

Best regards.

With respect, why? Isn't this is a file manager's job, rather than an application's?

What maybe fits your needs best is the command "move to", and it has the default shortcut "F8".

john_hudson wrote:With respect, why? Isn't this is a file manager's job, rather than an application's?

Well, if I'm organising my photo gallery, it's a bit of a pain to open a file manager to that folder to rename an image, don't you think?

Thanks Alec, this is absolutey my target. Renaming photos from my camera after downloading them to a folder and view them using gwenview.

On my work I have to use windows and their I selected Google Picasa to manage images. Picasa is really a nice tool with a good user experience and for sure you can rename files from within Picasa.

Does the gwenview devs reading this forum?
Could one of them give an answer?

AFAIR KIPI-plugins can perform batch renaming.

No batch renaming is required.

Just think of a collection of images belonging to different subjects.

e.g. you view an image and want to give it a name like "Opel Kadett 1976", next image name "Baby in pool".

Batch renaming is no solution here.

Alec wrote:Well, if I'm organising my photo gallery, it's a bit of a pain to open a file manager to that folder to rename an image, don't you think?

Agreed - but Gwenview describes itself as an Image Viewer and not a photo gallery. Digikam is KDE's photo manager and it does have a rename option.

Mark Ziegler wrote:I miss a way to easily rename images from within gwenview.
Key F2 would be perfect IMHO.

Is there a way a haven't seen?

Best regards.

OK, after writing the reply below I figured out how to do it with this "new" KDE 4.xx version of Gwenview.
Either right click on the image and then left click on "copy" or hit F7. Up will pop a panel and you can change the name and even copy it to another location all in one step. However, you will still have to delete the original if you don't want a copy with the old name.
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F2 was how you did a name change in the Gwenview version that ran under KDE 3.5.10. Why wasn't that feature incorporated into the KDE 4.xx version? I agree. Without it, renaming a photo or series of photos on an as needed basis becomes a major headache.

Hopefully the ability to rename on the fly will be re-instated in a forth coming update?

Has anyone filed a bug report?

john_hudson wrote:Agreed - but Gwenview describes itself as an Image Viewer and not a photo gallery. Digikam is KDE's photo manager and it does have a rename option.

Are you sure about that? I thought that distinction belonged to Gwenview which is why it was made part of the KDEgraphics module with the release KDE 4.xx. Prior to that you had to download it and install it yourself like you do with digiKam now. While digiKam is designed to run in KDE, I'm not sure it is the "official" photo manager.

You really shouldn't need to have more than one graphics viewer to simply rename a photo. DigiKam is a great program, but it is more than I want or need. For years I've been using Gwenview to view, rename, batch rename (which you can still do), edit metadata, etc., and if I wanted to edit beyond Gwenview's capabilities, one right click on the image and a couple of left clicks and the image would be opened in The GIMP. I'm happy to see that can still be done. Gwenview and The GIMP are a dynamite combination.

I'm merely quoting from Gwenview's own description of itself; and from Digikam's description of itself.

I agree, however, that Gwenview's ability to display all the images in a folder is a great help and there is nothing to stop its authors from developing it into a fully fledged 'photo gallery but at the moment is has no import from camera facility which I would have thought was the first requirement of a photo, rather than an image, application.

john_hudson wrote:....I agree, however, that Gwenview's ability to display all the images in a folder is a great help and there is nothing to stop its authors from developing it into a fully fledged 'photo gallery but at the moment is has no import from camera facility which I would have thought was the first requirement of a photo, rather than an image, application.

Personally, I don't want a "photo gallery" application like digiKam. The previous version of Gwenview, as it existed in KDE 3.5.10, was perfect and I don't see what has been done to it in KDE 4.xx as "improvements" or "enhancements."
It is not necessary to be able to import from the camera within an application. In both KDE 3.5.10 and 4.xx you just plug your camera or card reader into a USB port, "Hal" recognizes" it, and pops up a panel asking you what to do with it. From there I move the images to the appropriate directory/folder and I'm done. No fuss, no muss.
Simple and works well.