I have been thinking of implementing basic gallery support for typo. The main benefit of this would be that all site's data could be handled at same place and design would be the same over the site.
Gallery should be simple to use and maintain. People who need some advanced features probably uses separate gallery software like gallery2 already so there is no need to try to have all possible features on earth implemented. Main features: * Easily create and maintain many galleries * Upload system for easy/fast photo uploads * Exif support * Automatic thumbnail creation * Comments on albums/photos * Category support for photos and tags support if needed * Link albums/photos to posts The best way to do this or at least what I can think of is separate page for admin area for gallery administration. It should allow creating new galleries and organizing old ones. Moving photos to correct categories and so on. Before organizing photos we actually need to upload those first. Simplest way probably would be to reuse "resources" for this. I think more proper way would be to create new upload system to gallery page where you could upload multiple photos and assign categories/tags easily. You may also want some alternative way of uploading photos like manually copying to some location on server and then selecting them in typo. You can organize photos to different categories(albums) and add some basic information. Exif information is automatically parsed and showed on page. Photos are showed using lightbox.js but that may restricts the usage somewhat. E.g. where you show the photo information and possible comments? The gallery as the visitor sees it is very simplistic and should perhaps use current theme's properties if possible? These are just some fast typed notes about what kind of gallery support I would like to see in typo. All comments and criticism are more than welcome. I'm posting this here in hope that I could get some sort of understanding whether this is a feature that has even a slight change to get included in typo. -Tuomas Peippo _______________________________________________ Typo-list mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/typo-list
