digital pictures: reordering and renaming (in a different way)

["H.S." <hs.samix@gmail.com>]

Hello,

I have a few hundred digital pictures scanned from negatives. Now when 
the negatives were scanned, the ordering was kind of lost. So now I have 
these sequential digital image files but their content is out of order.

I am looking for an application that will do the following:
1. Out of all the image files in a folder in konqueror (or in nautilus), 
it allows me to 'move' the images, in the folder view, to different 
places in the window. Basically, I am reording some of the files by 
moving them with the mouse.
2. Then, it allows me to select some files and let me rename all of 
those selected files sequentially in the order that they appear in the 
folder view. Something like a batch mode.

Basically, the above method will allow me to 'move' the image files in 
the folder view to their new 'place' in the order I have in mind. Once 
that is done, then a batch command allows me to rename the selected 
files sequentially. The second step is easily done with digikam. But 
what about the first one?

Hope I have explained this clearly enough. Suggestions? Advice? If push 
comes to shove, I can always sit on a weekend and manually renumber the 
images.

thanks,
->HS