Version: (using KDE KDE 3.2.3) Installed from: Mandrake RPMs OS: Linux Would it be possible to add a plug-in script option to the Camera image downloading function (or as an optional replacement)? What I have in mind is this: my camera (a Fuji) titles pictures as 'DSFC0xxx.jpg' on the card, with xxx incrementing through the pictures. This isn't all that good when storing a lot of them on a PC! Fuji's own Windows software creates a new directory called 'YYYY_MMDD' (as in the date of the download) , and naming each file 'YYYY_MMDD_HHMMSSaa', where the date/time details come from the creation time of the picture - 'aa' becomes 'ab' and so on if more than one picture is taken in the same second. Thus a picture taken on 12 August at 15:30:44 and downloaded on return home on 15 August would be found in 2004_0815/2004_0815_153044aa . Not a pretty naming convention, but functional! I'd like to have Digikam do the same - but it's easy to write a Perl script to do it, and it occurred to me that if Digikam could call a download script, rather than hardcoding a naming convention, then users could define their own naming conventions and perhaps upload suitable scripts to a repository somewhere to save people reinventing wheels. This would only apply to USB MSS cameras, of course, and would be in addition to the existing functionality.
custom renaming of items while downloading has been implemented. instead of what you suggested (using an external batch script), an internal implementation is provided which splits the name into three selectable components: prefix, exif datetime, sequence number. more advanced customization can be done by using a strftime formatted prefix. Note: the sequence number can be added in the prefix using something like %%03d . more details on this will be available from the digikam manual