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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    [digikam] [Bug 314441] Rename settings and auto-rotation while importing ignored [patch]
From:       <rockhopper.tux () gmail ! com>
Date:       2014-09-02 9:02:33
Message-ID: bug-314441-17878-MZc0I96ZoJ () http ! bugs ! kde ! org/
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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=314441

--- Comment #79 from rockhopper.tux@gmail.com ---
(In reply to Peter Albrecht from comment #78)
> I read your pattern like: 
> 1) take the pictures date as string
> 2) convert the date string to lowercase
> 3) since there is no explicit extension in your pattern, the original files
> extension is added, which seems to be uppercase (like in my case)
> 
> A modifier only modifies the string immediately in front of it. So from my
> point of view, not changing the extension seems to be correct.
> Implementing some intelligent magic like "if everything in the pattern is
> lowercase, the default added extension should be lowercase, too", would make
> the powerful renaming algorithm way more complex, more diffucult to maintain
> and more prone to errors, I guess.
> (And I personally don't like programs which _try_ to be smart and do
> something I did not expect.)
> Of course, this is only my opinion and free for discussion.
> 
> You can achieve, what you want with:
>      [date]{lower}.[ext]{lower}

Peter, thanks for your response on this, and after reading your explanation and
testing it I totally agree with you.

Please all ignore my my false expectation (last line) from #76, the way it is
working is for sure better and more correct.

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