[Thunar-dev] thunar-media-rename-plugin

[Benedikt Meurer]

Jannis Pohlmann wrote:
>>>>3. a tag can contain characters that are nog allowed in a
>>>>filename... f.e. "?" ... and it happen to be that this ?-sign is
>>>>in a lot of my tags or so it seems
>>>
>>>"?" is allowed in filenames. You just have to escape it when working
>>>on the shell. Some people might want to use it (e.g. there may be
>>>song titles like "Guess what?"). If I would disallow "?", I'd also
>>>have to replace spaces because they have to be escaped in the
>>>shell, too. 
>>
>>The point is that there are certain Operating Systems, and their
>>filesystems (that shall remain nameless) that do not allow certain
>>characters, and bitch about it in almost every occasion. If they find
>>such a file (f.e. in a samba share), they pretend it doesn't exist.
>>
>>I am sure that many people would like to remain compatible to that,
>>for many reasons, like because they are forced to work in such
>>enviroments.
> 
> That's no problem. Just search for a good tag editor (which allows you
> to change a lot of files in a fast way) and fix the tags.
> 
> Anyway, if there's a list of absolutely incompatible chars, I might
> consider replacing them with underscores (which again not everyone
> likes).

Since the plugin has to open all files anyway, you could also add an
additional statfs()/statvfs() call and check whether the filesystem is
SMBFS, FAT, etc. and if so replace chars.

> - Jannis

Benedikt