KRename 3.0 released

[Posted July 4, 2004 by corbet]

KDE.News carried the announcement for KRename 3.0. This is a focused tool: its one job is to rename files. "Besides doing the usual stuff, like changing filenames to lower case or appending numbers to them, KRename uses Konqueror's file plugins to access meta data such as ID3 tags of MP3 or Ogg Vorbis files or EXIF tags of JPEG images from your digital camera."

somewhat off-topic -- file names sorting in KDE (was: KRename 3.0 released)

Posted Jul 5, 2004 7:58 UTC (Mon) by mmarkov (guest, #4978) [Link] (1 responses)

This announcement reminds me that once I tried hard to force KDE to display the filenames UNIX-like, meaning the capital letters first, followed by the lower case names. I did not find out how to do it. This is KDE 3.1, RH 9.0.

May be it is your locale`?

Posted Jul 5, 2004 8:58 UTC (Mon) by eru (subscriber, #2753) [Link]

I suspect this is a locale issue. Try setting LC_ALL=POSIX to get "traditional" behaviour. To affect KDE and all programs started from it you could do it in the KDE starting script, probably /usr/bin/startkde.

I was recently surprised to find that locale affects even the order in which Bash expands * wildcards. I'm not sure I like it. The trouble is the locale mechanism do not distinguish "human" alphabetic ordering relevant to sorting dictionaries, phone books and the like, and ordering done just for technical reasons.