I sent a mail few time ago about the gallery system I wrote in a boring night for managing my pictures, and now I come back with some new ideas and stuff...
In the current version i have just replaced the imagemagick dependency in pro to use gstreamer which is faster, cooler and generates smaller files with better quality. i dont like imagemagick O:) Here's the perl script i wrote that uses gstreamer to generate the thumbnails: http://news.nopcode.org/gscale.pl My current plan is to rewrite 'tg' in C and make it depend on a external program to do these tasks supporting batched conversions in a better way. I also plan to write a ValaGtk frontend to make the gallery usable for non-console people (this is a secondary task) so, just a simple image viewer with support to manage all the options of 'TG' from the gui. About the web frontend I plan to add video support (reencoding mpg/avi to flv or theora) and adding a flv/theora web player inside the gallery, and try to offer a better interface (a non-php CGI would be cool) with timeline support, slideshow, related/random pictures and better protection for private galleries. A pluggeable interface for these features would be cool. I understand that most of the web/GUI development breaks most of the rules of suckless, but, I want a decent gallery without depending on php or sql, allowing me to interface with it using the shell. Ping me if you have any idea/tip/patch/... :) --pancake
