Feature suggestions

rpr

Joined: 2002-10-24
Posts: 15
Posted: Thu, 2002-10-24 01:38

I have used gallery since the early beta days, and I love it. There are really only two major things that would make my life easier:

1) heirarchical album structure, i.e. user has album john, he creates sub-album doe, the resultant path is /john/doe, not /john and /doe.

2) dammit, there was something else, but for the life of me I can't remember what it was.. :sad:

Other minor things:
- auto rename the album with the title, removing spaces/punctuation/etc.

Thanks
Tom
 
bharat
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Joined: 2002-05-21
Posts: 7994
Posted: Thu, 2002-10-24 16:27
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I have used gallery since the early beta days, and I love it.

Hurray for long time users! What version did you start with?

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There are really only two major things that would make my life easier:

1) heirarchical album structure, i.e. user has album john, he creates sub-album doe, the resultant path is /john/doe, not /john and /doe.

G2 does this.

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- auto rename the album with the title, removing spaces/punctuation/etc.

That's a good idea, and it's easily implementable as part of the application logic (I haven't gotten to that particular part yet).
 
rpr

Joined: 2002-10-24
Posts: 15
Posted: Thu, 2002-10-24 17:00
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>>I have used gallery since the early beta days, and I love it.
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Hurray for long time users! What version did you start with?

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There are really only two major things that would make my life easier:

1) heirarchical album structure, i.e. user has album john, he creates sub-album doe, the resultant path is /john/doe, not /john and /doe.
<<

G2 does this.

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- auto rename the album with the title, removing spaces/punctuation/etc.
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That's a good idea, and it's easily implementable as part of the application logic (I haven't gotten to that particular part yet).

I don't recall the version I started with, but it was at least a year and a half ago, I'm sure it was beta 0.6 or thereabouts.

Great news on the album tree, and the auto-rename thing. I also remembered (driving to work this morning) what the other thing was: self-registration for new users, with an admin approval. I spend a fair amount of time setting up users, if they could do it themselves, and I have final approval, that would make my life much easier. One of the main reasons I chose Gallery was because it was the only package I found that even HAD the concept of 'users'. Most were just 'convert some pictures' scripts. Gallery was (and is) the best solution for me, and it sounds like v2 will be even better.

I will stop bugging you now.

Thanks
Tom
 
pawmarks
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Joined: 2002-08-19
Posts: 19
Posted: Thu, 2002-10-24 17:33
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I spend a fair amount of time setting up users, if they could do it themselves, and I have final approval, that would make my life much easier
Tom

Same issue here. If you aren't currently using a *nuke CMS, you might want to look at installing one of those with Gallery as a module. 2.x should provide much more robust support for the nuke permissions systems (and thus the automated setup we both want)
 
rpr

Joined: 2002-10-24
Posts: 15
Posted: Fri, 2002-10-25 01:57
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Same issue here. If you aren't currently using a *nuke CMS, you might want to look at installing one of those with Gallery as a module. 2.x should provide much more robust support for the nuke permissions systems (and thus the automated setup we both want)

I am using Interchange e-commerce software for my CMS, and I'm pretty tied into it, so switching to a *nuke system would be a lot more work than just creating users as I am now. If the authentication system is open enoguh to hook into Interchange's system, then cool. Then I just have to find someone to build it... :smile:

Unless, of course, there is a robust e-commerce module for *nuke that I haven't found yet...
 
hk_traveller

Joined: 2002-09-17
Posts: 27
Posted: Fri, 2002-10-25 04:04
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Great news on the album tree, and the auto-rename thing. I also remembered (driving to work this morning) what the other thing was: self-registration for new users, with an admin approval. I spend a fair amount of time setting up users, if they could do it themselves, and I have final approval, that would make my life much easier. One of the main reasons I chose Gallery was because it was the only package I found that even HAD the concept of 'users'. Most were just 'convert some pictures' scripts. Gallery was (and is) the best solution for me, and it sounds like v2 will be even better.

I will stop bugging you now.

Thanks
Tom

4images (www.4homepages.de) also have the concepts of user and user group to manage photo album. However the security control is not very good and I think future Gallery v2 will have different security levels to manage private/shared/public albums for different user groups.
 
rpr

Joined: 2002-10-24
Posts: 15
Posted: Fri, 2002-10-25 15:04

Well, I can't get to the site you listed, although I did check the Bali page you posted in the other thread. It looks like a nice package, but I don't think it existed at the time I was looking for something, so that wouldn't have helped me. I have no real complaints with Gallery, it's been continually upgraded, and it looks like v2 will be quite good. I just have to be patient... :smile:

Tom