On 17/07/06, Patrick Wagstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Over the last few weeks I managed to hack together what I believe is a > pretty nifty new gallery script for F-Spot, which I call PennAve. > Instead of just presenting a static HTML export from F-Spot, PennAve > allows visitors to browse tags and stack tags together. A wonderful way > to sort photos. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately), it's not > written in C#, rather it's a Python application that one runs on their > web server. Instead of needing a separate database, it directly > utilizes the photos.db file from F-Spot to provide all the tag and photo > information. For my system, it's as simple as just using an rsync > script to update my archive of photos on my server and copy over the new > photos.db. > > The main screen presents a list of all the tags in the database scaled > by the number of photos with that tag. Clicking on tag brings up only > photos with those tags. Clicking on more tags results in a logical > "and" operation. In my brief user testing with some folks at my church, > they were really impressed at how easy it was to find specific photos > from an event just by browsing the tags. I consider that a success. > Heck, my Dad even figured it out quickly after I was able to communicate > how to type a URL directly into IE. > > It's designed to be extensible - the entire user interface is written in > XSLT and CSS -- so if you hate python, you don't need to touch it. On > the other hand, you need to hack some XSLT to change the user interface. > The XSLT translation is done client side, so you'll need a newer browser > such as Firefox (IE worked until recently, something I did broke it > though). > > Anyway, I figured that maybe some other people might find it > interesting. You can find the home page for project - which I started > two years ago, but decided to completely rewrite it and just use the > same name, at http://pennave.sf.net/ If you're impatient and would > just like to see a demo gallery of what the software can do, check out > the demo gallery at http://patrick.wagstrom.net/gallery/ (go easy on it > to get the feel, it's a cable modem) > > Anyway feedback is appreciated. I don't anticipate every trying to get > this as an official part of F-Spot, but I'm hoping that it might fill a > need for some other people. > > Thanks! > > Patrick Wagstrom >
That's pretty nice. How do it handle non-latin characters? _______________________________________________ F-spot-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list
