On 2015-09-06 22:15 +0200, lemonsqueeze wrote:

> I find myself using geeqie in "sort by date" mode a lot these days, and
> sorely lacking an easy way to reorder files when the timestamps need
> changing. Looks like I could get away with collections for reordering,
> but the timestamps would still be wrong. So I came up with a plugin to
> reorder files in the current selection. Basically selecting files [a]
> [b] [c] and clicking reorder changes [b] and [c]'s timestamps so they
> show up right after [a] in that order.
> 
> Next step was to find a way to make it more accessible so you don't have
> to go digging for it in the Edit menu. I came up with a patch to allow
> plugins to show up directly in the popup menu if they set
>   X-Geeqie-PopupMenu=true
> in the .desktop file. Now it's a joy to use.
> 
> Posting in case others find it useful / it makes sense to add it to geeqie.
> 
> My changes for current 1.2 branch are on the reorder_plugin branch at
>   https://github.com/lemonsqueeze/geeqie/
> (plugin is at http://tinyurl.com/nv8pm4x)

Thanks for this, I may give it a try, although for my purposes I have
found sort-by-date so useless that I now routinely rename my images to a
name reflecting the date (eg. 20150906172825.dng) as the first step in
my pipeline :-P  

(I have a little python script for that, if anyone is interested.)

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