slideshow choices in Gallery2

Setting up a Drupal site Gallery 2.3 I noted that the "old" slideshow has been replaced by 2 new options which are not so attractive to me and would like to suggest some additional choices
- the option to have still the "old" slideshow
- dfgallery
- slideshowpro

1. The Cooliris slideshow is splendid but.... there seems no means to customize a number of things:
- inhibit full screen option
- change of colors
- different language options (dutch is what I need)
- no hidden sidepanel
- no link link to Cooliris
- hide where the pictures are located at the top-left and replace it with "back to album"

2. As fallback there is the Lite version which can be customised to some extend but, not being a programmer, it looks impossible to change some of the shortcomings that I see:
- fixed size window
- allowing any kind of photo (square, horizontal, vertical) being shown withoud resizing of the window and always horizontal/vertically centered in the flash window.

I tried to step back to the "old" slideshow I knew from the previous Gallery version but... no luck... after ftp loading the libraries it is not possible to activate the plug-in. I can only do an upgrade which brings me back to...yes... Cooliris and Lite version.
When I try to upload the slideshow from the menalto site...the same thing. Although the description fits the "old" slideshow, the link contains the new slideshows.

When looking around what is available on 'the market' I found 2 slideshows with serious potential:
- dfgallery (www.dezinerfolio.com/dfgallery-2/free-flash-gallery)
- slideshowpro (http://slideshowpro.net/) which although not for free is a very nice one

Both look good alternatives to Cooliris while it looks at first glance that they having customisation options available.

For sure I value Menalto gallery but feel that 'slideshows' remain a weakness in the Gallery.

Any feedback is appreciated

I too recently upgraded to Gallery 2.3 and was surprised with the change in slideshow options. I am bothered by the CoolIris slideshow in that it is included with Gallery as the default, yet it does not appear to be an Open Source project. Rather, it seems to be an advertisement for other CoolIris software. I don't think it's wrong for there to be a CoolIris plugin for Gallery. I'm certainly all for that... I just don't want to be running it on my site. My visitors should not be required, or even tempted to install anything on their computers when they visit my site.

I am MUCH happier using the fallback lytebox slideshow... though I think it could use some improvements. When a user exits a slideshow that was launched into a new window or new tab, the slideshow exits to a blank screen without any links back to the gallery. This seems like a bug to me. Everything works fine when the slideshow is opened in an existing window. This is only a problem when launching a slideshow into a new window or tab.

I am running the slideshow plugin posted here. This version allowed for serving intermediate sized images and for changing the delay between images. (both good changes)

I changed the goBackOnStop function to look like this.

function goBackOnStop() {
  var el = document.getElementById('lbOverlay');
  if (el && el.style.display != 'none') {
    setTimeout('goBackOnStop()', 1000);
  } else {
    {/literal}location.href='{$Slideshow.returnUrl}';{literal}
  }
}

It returns this in the page source.

function goBackOnStop() {
var el = document.getElementById('lbOverlay');
if (el && el.style.display != 'none') {
setTimeout('goBackOnStop()', 1000);
} else {
location.href='';
}
}

Now the slideshow starts over when you try to exit.

I cannot reproduce your error.
For me the $Slideshow.returnUrl populates correctly.

So how are you launching into a new tab or window?

-s
FlashYourWeb and Your Gallery with The E2 XML Media Player for Gallery2

So how are you launching into a new tab or window?
Have you altered the link to target="_blank" or right-clicking....

-s
FlashYourWeb and Your Gallery with The E2 XML Media Player for Gallery2

oops, I was right the returnUrl was for cooliris.
let's remedy that shall we?
/gallery2/modules/slideshow/Slideshow.inc
lines ~128 - 139:

	    if (GalleryUtilities::hasRequestVariable('return')) {
		/* Remove HTML entities */
		$Slideshow['returnUrl'] =
		    html_entity_decode(GalleryUtilities::getRequestVariables('return'));
	    }

	    if (empty($Slideshow['returnUrl'])) {
		$Slideshow['returnUrl'] = $urlGenerator->generateUrl(
		    array('view' => 'core.ShowItem', 'itemId' => $Slideshow['startItemId']),
		    $jsUrlParams);
	    }
	    $Slideshow['returnUrl'] = $urlGenerator->makeAbsoluteUrl($Slideshow['returnUrl']);
	}

to:

	}
	    if (GalleryUtilities::hasRequestVariable('return')) {
		/* Remove HTML entities */
		$Slideshow['returnUrl'] =
		    html_entity_decode(GalleryUtilities::getRequestVariables('return'));
	    }

	    if (empty($Slideshow['returnUrl'])) {
		$Slideshow['returnUrl'] = $urlGenerator->generateUrl(
		    array('view' => 'core.ShowItem', 'itemId' => $Slideshow['startItemId']),
		    $jsUrlParams);
	    }
	    $Slideshow['returnUrl'] = $urlGenerator->makeAbsoluteUrl($Slideshow['returnUrl']);

basically just move the curly to the top of the code block. Moving the returnUrl out of the conditional statement.

-s
FlashYourWeb and Your Gallery with The E2 XML Media Player for Gallery2

I like the way the following code behaves. It allows the slideshow link to be used outside of the gallery.

if (history.length > 1){
  history.go(-1);
} else {
  {/literal}location.href='{$Slideshow.returnUrl}';{literal}
}