GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 167216
Allow renaming currently displayed image file
Last modified: 2021-06-19 08:45:55 UTC
Distribution/Version: Mandrake cooker (devel) Eog is great (imho, the best of the image viewers, even for kde). I do have a few suggestions for improvements, all of which should be really easy to do, and very useful. Problem: Images from a digital camera have unhelpful filenames, and may not be correctly rotated. It would be useful to fix these quickly, especially if one has several hundered images to do! Suggestion: 1)eog should add an option to rename files (not save as). Ideally, this would be invoked by a right-click, and/or keyboard shortcut, for maximum speed. There is no need to change the directory here, so simply right-clicking on the filename beneath the image, and editing in-place would do. 2)After rotating and renaming, it would be useful to have an option "Save All". This would save all the changed files in one go. 3)Trivial: keyboard shortcut "Ctrl-L" for rotate anti-clockwise. Thank you very much.
Thanks for the report! For 2.14, we plan to remove save capabilities from EOG (see bug #320893 to know what is planned about this). Also, renaming and "Save All" features are more for a photo manager or nautilus. EOG is an app for fast image viewing. IMHO, this is a WONTFIX bug.
Nooo! Please don't do that. Eog is by far the best photo *manager* that exists yet under Linux! It is much more capable than any of the other programs. Eog performs the critical tasks for digital cameras very well, namely the process of batch sorting and file-naming imported photos. - View a directory. - Zoom in if desired. - Quickly Delete the junk photos, rotate the wrong orientations. - Rename the files with descriptive names. - Loads quickly, and has a great (yet simple) interface. The only thing it doesn't do easily enough is to allow quick re-naming of the files. There is, as yet, no perfect Linux application which does all these tasks, but eog is the most nearly best. For a purely image viewer, I'd suggest using ee or xli. Lastly, please don't try to move this stuff into Nautilus - since it really isn't very pleasant to use under KDE. Given the simplicity of the modifications and the usefulness of the result, why not add the features, but, if you wish, turn them off by default unless selected by an "Advanced" option.
Isn't this what gthumb really wants to be? There's no use in maintaining two apps with the more advanced features IMO.
Well, yes. But gthumb isn't quite ready yet! The interface of eog is much nicer. And while I agree that it's not really necessary to have 2 applications, eog is so nearly finished (it is 99.5% of perfect for what I look for), it would be really easy to add.
Moving to 2.17.
*** Bug 557173 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I agree with original reporter - adding renaming and moving of files to EOG would be a very useful addition, for precisely the same reason - going through digital camera pics. "Fred and Jane's birthday party 12-Oct-2008.jpg" is so much nicer that "000282002.jpg", and sometimes you want to move files as well (e.g. I move the best images into a "to be printed" subfolder). For keyboard shortcuts, suggest "F2" for renaming the current image file from within EoG, so as to be the same as Nautilus. Moving could be done using F7, perhaps. If you want some precedent for file renaming and moving functionality within an image viewer, there's the Irfanview image viewer on Windows, which does this quite well, and it's very useful to have this functionality available from within the image viewer app.
Renaming the currently displayed file is a valid and useful feature request, an entry could be added to the "File" menu. - with a simple keyboard shortcut like F2 for consistency with Nautilus. To move files, you can already drag and drop the picture from eog's window to copy it wherever you want. Or use Save As. Then delete the original with Del key. Or (even better) hold Alt when dropping the file that offers options to Symlink or Move it. Plenty of solutions. Changing the bug title to focus only on renaming files. Please reopen a bug report with a proper title if you feel the copy/move features need enhancement.
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