A few G3 Questions
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Emory Walton
Joined: 2006-08-03
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Posted: Sun, 2010-01-31 18:58
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Hello, I just switched to a new hosting service and decided that I would start out with Gallery 3 on the new host. After a minor glitch with assigning a new SQL database (MySQL adds a prefix to the database name and the username that I assigned) I now have Gallery 3 installed. You might want to include a precaution about that glitch to those who install Gallery 3. It seems as though the import option that you offer presumes that the Gallery 2 installation is on the same server. Question 1 is What is the best way to transfer the Gallery 2 installation on the old server to Gallery 3 on the new server? I notice only 1 theme available in Gallery 3 although others are mentioned online. That is fine for the time being, but I did not see options for setting the number of rows and columns in that one theme, only for the number of images per page. Question 2 How do I set the number of rows and columns in the default Gallery 3 theme? With the Gallery 2 setup, I had multiple watermarks to accommodate various image sizes. It was somewhat of a nuisance because depending on the size of the image to be watermarked, one watermark file could be either far too small, or so large that it would not completely fit on the image, so I had to check each photo to be watermarked and see which watermark was the best fit. I notice that Gallery 3 says that only 1 watermark can be used, and although I haven't yet tried to use it, I am anticipating that I will have a problem being restricted to only 1 watermark. Question 3: Can Gallery 3 accommodate disparate image and watermark sizes with only one watermark? Thanks in advance for your help. |
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If you want just the items and not the data you can move the g2data/albums direcotry to the new server and use the server add method in G3 to import the items. If you want the data as well you need to move the G2 to the new server:
FAQ: How can I move my gallery installation from one server to another?
or install G3 on the old server and then move it. No docs yet for this procedure.
It is up to the theme author to have this setting. The default wind theme does not use rows/columns it uses <divs> and will let the browser determine the layout.
Some other themes: http://codex.gallery2.org/Category:Gallery_3:Themes
@watermarks, we went with simplicity in the code and might change in the future. As you add more complexity you get closer to G2 ( hard to customize, slower, more complex to maintain....etc )
Dave
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