Gallery 3.0 Beta 1 Feedback

Beta 1 is ready.. wahoooo! Have you tried it? What did you think? Let us know!
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will there be support for 2.3 multisite migration, or am I dreaming too soon?

testing now...thanks for considering the ticket i filed "password reset" notification.

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Damn! Nothing works. In the past 1 day things have gone from bad to worse with my attempts to use gallery3 (alpha 4 and beta 1 and now the code at http://github.com/gallery/gallery3/zipball/master). While alpha 4 at least had the links working (but failed to import anything from g2), in beta 1 absolutely nothing works for me!

The only line in the logs is:
2009-06-06 03:39:50 -07:00 --- error: Uncaught Kohana_404_Exception: The page you requested, , could not be found. in file system/core/Kohana.php on line 841

Do a search at http://gallery.nrajesh.com/ or try clicking on the login links (nothing happens)!

Am I facing compatibility issues?

I've tried all the Alphas and just got beta1 installed...a huge improvement! I received several error messages about php options that were missing. These were very helpful and made it easy to get things up and running quickly.

I'm testing the import of 2022 images from my g2 install now, so I have more to play around with and test. The alpha's were buggy enough that I couldn't really test G3 as a replacement for my stable G2 install, but it looks like I should be able to do much more extensive testing of b1.

One suggestion from the install. Would it be possible to prompt for the location G3 stores it's data, during the install? I like keeping my gallery data on it's own partition, not necessarily in var under G3. I solved this by using a symlink from g3/var to my other directory.

Vern

http://vw.homelinux.net/gallery2

Many thanks for this! - been waiting a while for the Beta; checked today and here it is. Installed, ran migrate module from G2, and I have a working gallery.
After G2, looks pretty "bare" - lacking loads of choices. I know simplicity is a major aim, which is great; also that more is to come.

Upload certainly improved; status bar, and uploading one photo even as work on add more. Should especially suit people who've become used to Facebook, say.

On fairly quick look, some of things I'd like to see - which might not be too troublesome - include:

Ability to add links; esp as I run my Galleries in tandem with Drupal sites (currently, can't embed).
Just seen in settings that I can add link at bottom, where it says "Powered by"; so there's a ready workaround, but still good if can have link(s) in main column.

Black (or v dark grey) background for theme; on web, photos surely better against black.

Nice if can have chance to rearrange the random image - I'd move it up. Cracking if can do this w drag n drop, as per Dashboard.

Good to see URL rewrites evidently on way, inc support for G2 URLs: I may wait for this till I make change for a couple more sites; faffing with 301 redirects isn't fun!

Any chance of some control over description in head for each page? Might help with search engine results, and with adding text to entice visitors. [I haven't looked into issue hard, but always felt my Gallery photos didn't do too well in Google, say.]

Option of text as well as image for, say, slideshow might be worthwhile. I'm not sure all my visitors will figure meaning of the icon, nice tho it is.

The above link re community repository no longer works

Hope these comments of some use; I look forward to further progress - and hope users of gallery I've migrated to G3 like the improvements.

@BassKozz: no Eye-Fi support yet, but it'd probably be easy to write a module to support it. If somebody wants to work on that, I'll assist.

@scaturan: I haven't scratched the surface of that yet. Short answer is "yes" but it's not going to be a high priority right now (got to build a working product first!). Settings > Advanced is a "caveat emptor" kind of thing. Changing the values there don't trigger the code which marks the images dirty and rebuildable. On the password reset front-- you found http://apps.sourceforge.net/trac/gallery/ticket/356 -- good work! I've fixed it in the latest code.

@nrajesh: sounds like you're using PHP on CGI. If the latest code doesn't work for you, can you post your phpinfo() output for me to look at?

@rbr28: glad to hear beta 1 is working better for you. We will eventually support letting you move the var dir somewhere else, but it's a little complex so for now a symlink is your best bet.

@DocMartin: It would be easy for somebody to write a links module, if somebody starts on it we'll help. More themes are coming! But right now we're focused on making one really good one first. Ticket for reordering the sidebar is here: http://apps.sourceforge.net/trac/gallery/ticket/110 .. url rewrite are coming (I need this too!). What kinds of changes do you want to see in <head/>? Some we can do in the theme, others could be done in a module.

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@Ability to add links; you can add links to the theme header/footer:
appearance -> theme options
add regular html in the header/footer.
This is likely to change in the future ( html sanitization/bbcode/security )

Also you can change the the "Powered by" as you said in the Settings -> advanced change the settings in the credits section.

Dave

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@bharat : Getting better and better. The translation is nice! Here is the report
1-Pictures, when shown in the gallery, do not respect the Orientation Exif meta information.
2-A maximum size limit in pixcel size or bytes size configuration would be nice (or resize). This too could be in the theme options...
3-Search : Just to be sure, I have deleted all old database and files. This is a new installation, and after adding a couple of pictures IMG_4442.JPG, IMG_4488.JPG, and looking if there was no maintenance left, searching for "444" gives no results. Actually, searching for watever gives no results. What do you need so I can help you on this?
4-Looking at permissions, will there be more à la drupal? Who can post comments, who can see comments, etc?
5-I have 3 albums, and the "Gallery Stats" in the dashboard says : Albums : 4.

Have a nice day.

Alexandre Racine
http://www.salsamontreal.com - Évènement, photos et beaucoup plus!

Maybe I was missing something, but couldn't readily see how to edit header text (when it's empty at start)
Via addvanced settings source code, I found URL for editing this; went to URL, and could enter something, after which easy to click on it to edit.

Admin -> Appearance -> Theme Options: Header text & footer text

That way works as well.

Dave

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I'm really enjoying using Gallery3 Beta 1. It was easy to import all the pictures from G2 and didn't get any errors. All the pictures loaded up really quickly compare G2. There are some suggestions though.

1. When adding new photos, I get an error: Error: your server is configured to use the suhosin.session.encrypt setting from Suhosin. You must disable this setting to upload photos. Where do I disable this setting?
2. Adding the "Show subalbum links" will be very useful to have without having to click on every album to see what's inside. Here's a link of an example: http://cyberinviso.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=27
3. After importing from G2, when the title is italic and I believe in bold as well, it shows up as [i]Title[/i]. Here's an example of that: http://cyberinviso.com/gallery3b1/index.php/covers
4. When using RSS, "All new comments" and "Comments on [Title]" still shows up even when "Comments" is unchecked in the Gallery Modules.
5. In the Admin Dashboard, there's nothing under the "Content" tab, so I'm not sure what that is actually.
6. If there is an option to add to removed the grey backdrop on the albums that will be great.
7. If it's possible to have an option to randomize the pictures in the album to be the album cover so each picture will be different on the album cover every time you visit the gallery.

Keep up the great work!

Congratulations on finishing 3b1 and thanks for the hard work.

I mostly want to use my site as a family pictures sharing thingy so I'd like cousin x to have access to his' own directory in the family/family_rotterdam/cousin_x directory to which only he (and admin obviously) has add/edit access the rest of the family can watch, comment but not add or edit. Guests and registered can't even watch. Currently the only way I can find is to make a new group with only cousin_x as a member and give access to that. Is or will there be some other way to do this?

Since may 1st gallery is unable to find imagemagick. I can't find anything in my phpinfo, so I'm fairly sure my hosting company did something wrong. They reinstalled it (so they say) but it still doesn't work. GD works fine. Since I couldn't find a forum post on this, I assume I'm the only one experiencing this, which would be logical if my hosting company is at fault.

@AndrewRH: what's the benefit of asking for the generated password? We just told them the password, so it's not a big security hurdle.. their session is authenticated already. Adding extra security hurdles usually just frustrates users. For now, you can download a new zip and just unpack it. Later on, we'll have an actual upgrade step that you run after unpacking a new zip file. Good catch on the url bug.. ticket filed: http://apps.sourceforge.net/trac/gallery/ticket/363

@alexanderracine: 1) http://apps.sourceforge.net/trac/gallery/ticket/265 2) Please file a ticket for that feature. 3) we don't support substring searches yet, would you please file a ticket for that also? 4) we have the ability to easily add more permissions, but we've held off on it because we don't want to clutter the permissions interface. more decisions to be made there. 5) you have 4 albums because the root of your gallery is an album too (I guess that's non-intuitive.. maybe we should adjust the stats)

@DocMartin: http://apps.sourceforge.net/trac/gallery/ticket/342 and there's a much better upload workflow coming, see http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery3:Upload_UX

@kellym: It sounds like /usr/local/bin isn't in your PHP's path. To verify, try running "which convert" from a shell. That turns up /usr/local/bin, right? Now try: <? system("which convert"); ?> and when you open that in a browser, it should tell you the same path. If not, you need to configure the path for your Apache user so that Gallery can find your binaries.

@cyberinviso: you need to put suhosin.session.encrypt = Off in your php.ini and restart Apache, or I think you can put php_value suhosin.session.encrypt Off in your Apache conf file just for the gallery3 directory. 3) we don't support BBCode yet. I filed http://apps.sourceforge.net/trac/gallery/ticket/364 to work on that. http://apps.sourceforge.net/trac/gallery/ticket/365 for the comment rss feed appearing when it shouldn't. http://apps.sourceforge.net/trac/gallery/ticket/366 for the menu issue. 6) is a theme setting.. create a new theme and you can hack it up any way you want 7) is possible would you please file a ticket for it?

@Okat: currently we've decided to make permissions at the album and group level, because that gives us some performance benefits. So creating a new group is the only way to do it.

@mg83264: yup, we do plan to support multi-site installs. It's not there yet, though.

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@Nigel_Aves: 1) on the import problem.. sanity check: did you look in gallery3/var/logs for output? We should not be stopping without putting some indication of the reason in a file there. Another thing you can do is to try resuming the stalled task while using tcpdump/tcpflow/wireshark or some other network sniffing tool to see the network traffic. If it's a fatal error in PHP, you may see a result there. You may have to edit gallery3/index.php and set display_errors to true for it to dump out anything of interest (but maybe not). 2) for the tags block we're using a semantic HTML approach which degrades nicely on browsers that don't have CSS support. If it looks bad, please attach a screenshot. 3) we don't yet allow you to configure sidebar blocks, but there's a ticket open ot wokr on that. 4) yes Gallery 3 will support arbitrarily complex themes. none are written yet. we will support themers who are willing to try, though. 5) Most people don't care about quality settings, but you can configure it in Admin > Settings > Advanced (look for 'graphics_quality'). 6) please check your logs for exif errors. 7) yeah known issue.. you actually can copy/paste if you're creative about how you click but it's a pain.. 8) we'll get gallery remote or something similar working eventually, but that takes time and we're prioritizing the web experience first. Oh and the data location absolutely should be in the document root. Forcing it to be outside was a mistake in gallery 2 that resulted in a large performance issue. This approach is much faster, without trading off security.

In general I agree that we need more theme options, but all things in due time.

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Was looking into the EXIF a little more. Click a link and this happened.

So here's the error:
The page you requested, , could not be found.

File: system/core/Kohana.php, line: 841
And here's how we got there:

*

Kohana::show_404( )

* system/core/Event.php [209]:

call_user_func_array( Array
(
[0] => Kohana
[1] => show_404
)
, Array
(
[0] =>
)
)

* system/libraries/Router.php [163]:

Event::run( system.404 )

*

Router_Core::setup( )

* system/core/Event.php [209]:

call_user_func_array( Array
(
[0] => Router
[1] => setup
)
, Array
(
[0] =>
)
)

* system/core/Bootstrap.php [49]:

Event::run( system.routing )

* index.php [72]:

require( system/core/Bootstrap.php )

I then noticed that it thought it had loaded a picture but no thumbnail was displaying. I clicked the "blank thumb" and this happened.

So here's the error:
There was an SQL error: Unknown column 'weight' in 'where clause' - SELECT COUNT(*) AS position FROM items WHERE parent_id = 345 AND weight <= (SELECT weight FROM items WHERE id = 623) ORDER BY weight ASC

File: system/libraries/drivers/Database/Mysqli.php, line: 142
And here's how we got there:

* system/libraries/drivers/Database/Mysqli.php [90]:

Kohana_Mysqli_Result->__construct( mysqli Object
(
)
, 1,
SELECT COUNT(*) AS position FROM items
WHERE parent_id = 345
AND weight <= (SELECT weight
FROM items WHERE id = 623)
ORDER BY weight ASC )

* system/libraries/Database.php [259]:

Database_Mysqli_Driver->query(
SELECT COUNT(*) AS position FROM items
WHERE parent_id = 345
AND weight <= (SELECT weight
FROM items WHERE id = 623)
ORDER BY weight ASC )

* modules/gallery/libraries/MY_Database.php [56]:

Database_Core->query(
SELECT COUNT(*) AS position FROM items
WHERE parent_id = 345
AND weight <= (SELECT weight
FROM items WHERE id = 623)
ORDER BY weight ASC )

* modules/gallery/models/item.php [386]:

Database->query(
SELECT COUNT(*) AS position FROM {items}
WHERE parent_id = 345
AND weight <= (SELECT weight
FROM {items} WHERE id = 623)
ORDER BY weight ASC )

* modules/gallery/controllers/photos.php [28]:

Item_Model->get_position( 623 )

* modules/gallery/controllers/rest.php [91]:

Photos_Controller->_show( Item_Model Object
(
[children:protected] => items
[view_restrictions:private] =>
[sorting:protected] => Array
(
)

[rules] => Array
(
[name] => required|length[0,255]
[title] => required|length[0,255]
[description] => length[0,65535]
)

[model_name:private] => item
[has_one:protected] => Array
(
)

[belongs_to:protected] => Array
(
)

[has_many:protected] => Array
(
)

[has_and_belongs_to_many:protected] => Array
(
)

[load_with:protected] => Array
(
)

[object:protected] => Array
(
[id] => 623
[album_cover_item_id] =>
[captured] =>
[created] => 1244412645
[description] =>
[height] => 490
[left] => 4
[level] => 4
[mime_type] => image/jpeg
[name] => 638791809.jpg
[owner_id] => 3
[parent_id] => 345
[rand_key] => 0.229015
[relative_path_cache] => colour/pole I/pole II/jewels/leaves/cem/Graffiti/chair/toy/sub/corset/skull/Blood I/blood II/window/black and white/school/nude/lingerie/jewels/window/prom/woodland/rack/black_dress/Silhouette/tree/corner/pirate/meta2/meta1/stairwell_1/window_2/whip_1/roo
[resize_dirty] => 1
[resize_height] =>
[resize_width] =>
[right] => 5
[sort_column] => weight
[sort_order] => ASC
[thumb_dirty] => 1
[thumb_height] =>
[thumb_width] =>
[title] => Grande Place, Brussels
[type] => photo
[updated] => 1244412646
[view_count] => 0
[weight] => 311
[width] => 720
[view_1] => 1
[view_2] => 1
)

[changed:protected] => Array
(
)

[related:protected] => Array
(
)

[loaded:protected] => 1
[saved:protected] => 1
[object_relations:protected] => Array
(
)

My first impression is that international characters are still broken. 'ładne zdjęcie.jpg' was uploaded. Thumbnail created by I can't access the picture itself. Got error page. This error was reported on Gallery 3 Alpha 4 feedback page. I checked ticket http://apps.sourceforge.net/trac/gallery/ticket/283 and I see it will be fixed with next release. Will wait to test it again

Otherwise, I noticed very slow picture regeneration. I have fast, testing server at home but it take like 60 s to rebuild 64 images (changing thumb size from 200 to 15 and image size from 640 to 800). Those images are small (below 900px). My only modification to gallery was to change in advance admin panel image quality from 75 to 90, but going back to 75 did not increased image rebuilding speed. I am using Imagemagick as a graphic engine (server is a standard Ubuntu 9.04 64 bit server edition @ Athlon 64 X2 5400 + 4GB RAM). I can swear under the oath that Alpha 4 was lighting fast at this task when compared to Beta 1. My production G2 on virtual served (shared) can resize few thousands thumbs in few minutes. G3 is much, much slower, even on dedicated server.

That's it. I will test this release for few days. Hope to go for G3 Beta 2 as a gallery of my choice if ticked 283 will be fixed.

Good work!

floridadave: thanks for this re header n footer; I'd seen this screen, overlooked later. Easier than my daft way.

@bharat: glad page titles will be sorted. The forthcoming upload flow looks like being the bee's knees

Bharat,

Just tried the Import Fix and it did work (there where however a series of photographs not imported and that was because they where .tiff format, really need this format supported as it is the preferred format for sharing photographs (for printing) being a no loss format).

Exif issue is still there but did get further. First thing was that it reported all photographs need updating (one shot thing, no big deal), worked up to photograph 580, stalled. Will not re-start. No messages at all in log file.

Importing.

I have a lot of photographs broken over many galleries and use different photo sizes depending on the album. (Especially for Panoramic or download high-res versions)

We need to have photo sizes by album through the theme (this includes number / page by rows and cols not a global number) - Same as Gallery2. Most of the Album Options under General and Theme I would not want to loose.

The sizes issue was obvious when I noticed my Panoramic photos had all been shrunk!

Gallery Itself.

Click a thumbnail to get to photograph. You know have an option in top right for "View Full Size". I could not find a setting for the "Full Size" size (This of course is really a re-size to Max size to use in Gallery, we should not need to re-size locally then do another re-size in Gallery ). BTW - Import did not import the full size images (set to 1024) from Gallery2 (or had not seemed to).

If you have time have a quick look here at one of my gallery pages in Joomla - http://soft-focus-imagining.com/thumbnail-galleries/blind-kat

If you click the thumbnail it opens directly in Highslide and if you hoover the cursor over the photograph you'll see options appear for previous, next, slideshow, close. (I have commenting turned off).

A lot of people who have visited my site like this kind of format, especially the built in slideshow.

Just thoughts,

Nigel.

@Nigel_Aves: On the exif front, that's pretty interesting. If you can create an admin account for me and give me the u/p I can probably get enough information to figure out what's going on there (email me at

). Album options: we may eventually offer custom sizes per album. It's not on the roadmap for now, though since most people don't absolutely need it and we're trying to minimize esoteric features. Please file a ticket for that. I'm not following what you mean about full sizes. In G3 there's only the thumbnail, a resize, and the original. If you click on the resize, it'll show you the original. Does that clear it up? If not, I need more details. As for highslide-- that's cool stuff. You can easily implement that as a theme in Gallery3 (and in fact, lvthunder has made a lightbox theme for G3 already which does most of that, iirc).

@suren: Sigh. If we watermark the original, then anything we create from the original will have that watermark stuck in it which looks terrible when you resize it down. So we'd have to stash away a copy of the original and then watermark it and use the copy as the source for resizes and thumbnails. We did that in G2 and it was a major pain, so we're not going down that road again (well, I don't anticipate writing that code myself-- perhaps you'd like to help out). In G3, you should watermark the resize and thumbnail and then hide the original so that nobody will see it. There's also some code in this ticket: http://apps.sourceforge.net/trac/gallery/ticket/271 to support multiple watermarks. Try it out and let us know what you think.

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You are aware that you can translate most text in gallery even form English to English?

Dave
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Probably getting way ahead of myself, but something I like and use in G2 is the googlemaps module, where photos can be placed on a map based on GPS data in exif headers.

I take it at the mo, the photo info (exif data) is only showing a select amount of data...can I show the GPS data too?

Jonreynolds-Using server add, I was able to add up to about 10 folders with about 16 photos within each. Any more and nothing would happen as function cancelled. About 25% of the time it would hang up on me. I then clicked pause and closed the dialog box. I would then close the fatal error box and click on maintenance tab to click resume of server add. Most of the time it would finish the job. I never had duplicating problem.

@SECgirls: the server_add module is going to get rewritten.. stay tuned for that. The problem you're probably hitting is that on the server side it's trying to ram too much data into a single database column. Stay tuned for the rewrite.

@Jonreynolds: we've got a prototype google maps module in the gallery3-contrib repo on github, if you'd like to pariticipate in coding on that I'll assist.

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agree about root as album...for me only albums (no photos) on first level, then only albums again on second level, etc... Eg. Albums at first level: Sports / Nature / Events / Cities, etc.... Albums second level within Sports: Baseball / Football / Golf / Basketball / Hockey.... Albums third level within Baseball: Atlanta Braves / New York Yankees / Chicago Cubs.... Albums fourth level: Specific game dates versus teams or similar then photos. Nested folders are used for organization.

on board with that...G3 needs to be as close to perfect as possible first!

I am paranoid right now about deleting an empty or unneeded album as it could delete a different folder with thousands of photos! I wish that G3 would confirm specific name when deleting instead of generic notice. I have already been burned once with this bug. At least when it made the wrong photo the cover thumb, I could easily correct that by selecting the wrong photo and then go back to the original photo and try again. I wish I could also import more photos at a time or without losing my place from the source and that it would not stall so often. I also had one album become nested about 100 folders within somehow. Half the page was the bread crumb trail and the url was a mile long. Somehow dozens of image file names were in the nesting. Regardless, I am making it work and I am excited about G2.

Phil

In title bar of your browser need update to album name / photo name.

Currently only: "Browse Photos album"

It's looking nice so far. Very slick.

Is the feature to have multiple resize-resolutions planned for inclusion by 3.0 final, or is that out for the time being?