[Shotwell] Rename files on import

[Stian Jordet]

Hi!

Since I started using F-spot in 2004, the one thing that was always 
missing for me was the ability to import into a folder structure (which 
Shotwell already solves!) and to rename image files.

I have "forever" used a more or less homemade perl-script to move 
pictures into my folder structure, and it has been working ok. 
Especially with Shotwell's "Watch library directory for new files". But 
now with both movies and raw-files, I've been struggling a bit to make 
my perl script do what I want it to. The best would be to use Shotwell 
directly.

The script is importing pictures using EXIF-data into a structure like 
$year$month/$year-$month-$day-$counter.jpg - for instance for the first 
picture taken today it will be "201110/2011-10-07-0001.jpg"

I find this incredibly more useful than P1234567.jpg or DSC_12367.jpg or 
similar - altough I ofcourse understand that others have different 
workflows.

I've been browsing the existing issues, and didn't find any similar 
ones. I feel it's not quite the same as #1562 - I just want the rename 
to happen at import-time, not whenever.

But of course it will have to happen when I import JPEG+RAW also, and 
preferably also movies.

I'm thinking that maybe this may be done through the "Directory 
Structure" field in the preferences. Just choose "Custom", and you 
should be able to write pattern for files as well, like 
"%Y%m/%Y-%m-%d-%counter.jpg" for my pattern for instance.

I will create an issue for this, but I just wanted to hear others 
opinion about this, especially the developer's opinion. If this is 
something people (and again, especially developers) think is a good 
idea, is it possible to get it implementet by donating? If so, how much 
would be needed-ish? 100$? 200$? 500$?

This is really what would make my workflow perfect. There are also 
things I miss from F-Spot, but I think most of it will be implemented 
eventually.

Thanks for your great effort!

Regards,
Stian