GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 94364
automatic filename incrementor in 'save as'
Last modified: 2012-10-09 15:59:17 UTC
Blender has a nice feature when saving files. In the save as dialog, when you press '+', the filename appends/increments a number. Pressing '-' decrements/removes the number. example: pressing '+' would filename.xcf -> filename1.xcf filename1.xcf -> filename2.xcf etc
Changes at the request of Dave Neary on the developer mailing list. I am changing many of the bugzilla reports that have not specified a target milestone to Future milestone. Hope that is acceptable.
Might be better to mention this to the Developers of the Next Generation File selector for GTK (Owen Taylor?). Tempted to move this bug to the GTK Product in bugzilla. There are other places in the GIMP where this general increment number in filename functionality would be useful http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101901
I don't think we even have a chance to implement this feature in GIMP. We would either have to implement it outside the file-selector (provide some way of working with a sequence of images) or GTK+ would have to do it. Since this report explicitely asks for this feature in the save dialog, I am going to reassign it to GTK+.
This sounds like overkill for a very particular kind of application. We could probably have an "increment file name" command in the entry's contextual menu. I'll be happy to review a patch for that :)
Created attachment 168848 [details] [review] add basic renaming stuff in the contextual menu of the filechooser entry Hi, Here is a try to add the requested functionnality. It seems that we could have a lot more of nice convenient "transform" functions which could take the filename and make something else with it. To give a insight of this i added a ASCIIfy and a truncate to 20 character len item in the contextual menu. This patch is against 2.20.1
Closing as wontfix. Sorry; this feature seems too add very little value. If we ever move the file chooser to having extension points, this would be nice to add that way - but not now.