[Thunar-dev] A nice (imho) improvement for Thunar's Renamer

[Benedikt Meurer]

Petros wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> When you want to rename multiple files it would be nice to be able to
> change the order of the files in the list inside the renamer with a
> drag&drop method or up&down buttons or any other intuitive way. So, when
> you want to prefix files with numbers (eg. ##-filename), you just fix
> the order as you wish and then apply the numbering renaming task.
> 
> For example, you may want to number these 3 files : filename1, filename2
> and filename3. When you select them in thunar, they are added in the
> renamer's list in the order they were in thunar's list. If you have
> ordered them by name they show up in the renamer's list ordered by name,
> if you have ordered them by date they are passed ordered by date and so
> on... However, you may want to number them as 01-filename3, 02-filename1
> and 03-filename1. So, in these situations it's really handy to be able
> to change manually the order of the files in the renamer's list.

Please file a feature request at bugzilla.xfce.org.

> Have fun,
> Petros

Benedikt