User interface tips

Here are a few user interface information that may be useful :





The status bar

The status bar is at the bottom of Siren's main window. The information it displays deserve some explanation.

Until you change Siren's current directory or quit it the rename/copy operations can be undone or redone.
You'll find here information about history.
In this case, two operations have been done and one has been undone
The total duration of the audio and video selected files
The total size of the selected files
The number of selected and listed files


Right clicks



Drag & drop



File explorer integration



Delete elements from a combo list

You may have noticed that the values you typed in the combo boxes (expression, filter ...) are added (automatically or manually) to their list.
To remove a useless one, just open the list, highlight it and press the "Delete" key.



Edit information

In all combos and especially in the "Expression" one, a specific key combination has been added. It enables to determine correct "coordinates" for the modifiers.
If you press "Ctrl+Shift+E", information will be displayed in the status bar. You'll get the cursor (or selection start/end) positions from the start and end of the text and the selection length.



Expression combo shortcuts



Directory combo

Pressing the "+" button on its right will add the current value to the list.

As under your OS command line, names manually entered can contain environment variables, '.', ".." and, under GNU/Linux, '~'.



Expression testbed

In the "?" menu you'll find the "Expression testbed" option.

This tool has been designed for the ones who want to help Siren users having difficulties. It enables to create and test rapidly renaming expressions on files and directories that don't have to exist on the computer.
They are seen as empty and therefore won't have any metadata outside the ones of the "base" group.