Re: reorder files with a mouse in a file browser and rename them

[Gabor Nagy <mlist1@sign-el-soft.hu>]

> > This may be a little odd question. Can any of the file browsers
> > (konqueror, nautilus) let a user reorder the files in a folder by
> > dragging them to a certain position and then to rename the ordered files
> > automatically with a file pattern?
>
> You can do this very easy with the ng-xim program.
>    http://www.sign-el-soft.hu/cgi/ng-xim.en.html
>  1. Press Ctrl-d, and enter into the desired directory.
>    http://www.sign-el-soft.hu/cgi/ng-xim.en.html#filedirrend
>  2. Press Shift+F12 (or select small pictures mode from the view menu). So
> you can drag the pictures, and make the desired order.
>    http://www.sign-el-soft.hu/cgi/ng-xim.en.html#kepbemutatolista
>  3. Press F5 (or select copy move rename from file menu). Select rename and
> giv the file name as NameWhatYouWant-%+(001).jpg
>    http://www.sign-el-soft.hu/cgi/ng-xim.en.html#filecopy

When the order is done by drag and drop using the thumbnail view, you can 
change to single picture mode with a mouse click on a small picture.
You can check the order as a movie in single picture mode by pressing up or 
down arrow keys. The next click on the picture will return to the thumbnail 
view.
If the jpg files are in number of folders, you can see them together by 
opening the parent directory with a right mouse click. 
With file name %+(001)_%d_%f%e you can replace them into a new directory 
together. ( %+(001):count up, %d:directory name, %f:file name, %e:ext name )
  dir1/a.jpg  -> 001_dir1_a.jpg
  dir1/c.jpg  -> 002_dir1_c.jpg
  dir1/b.jpg  -> 003_dir1_b.jpg
  dir2/c.jpg  -> 004_dir2_c.jpg
  dir2/a.jpg  -> 005_dir2_a.jpg
  dir2/b.jpg  -> 006_dir2_b.jpg

If you use the pictures many times, copy them into a collection. So you can 
get a lot of other possibilities.