Feature requests

CarpetBagger
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Joined: 2002-08-09
Posts: 49
Posted: Sat, 2002-08-17 05:41
    <LI>Obey the FileName retention setting on the server
    <LI>Allow for creation of new Nested Albums to put pictures into
    <LI>Allow Position of new Nested Album to be set
    <LI>Allow files to be removed from the Upload list
    <LI>Allow files to be re-ordered or sorted in the Upload list

Item #3 might be better suited as a Gallery server side option rather than a Gallery Remote setting. I like to order my Nested Albums in reverse chronological order, so the newest are always at the top of the list. Not a problem for me, but when others upload images, they sometimes forget to move them, or tell me about them for a while.[/]
 
paour
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Joined: 2002-08-14
Posts: 1479
Posted: Sat, 2002-08-17 07:54

Items #4 and #5 are implemented in the upcoming GR 0.4.
Item #2 is already in the list of features planned for GR 1.0.
I've added item #1 to that list with a high importance. I hadn't realized this wasn't the case because I don't use that setting.

Item #3 is an interesting suggestion, that I'll treat as a corrolary of #2.

Thanks for the suggestions.
 
vallimar

Joined: 2002-08-15
Posts: 487
Posted: Mon, 2002-08-19 16:57

Those are good ideas. I'd like to add a couple of my own,
These all are in regards to the gallery_remote.php file since
I don't use the java version but my own modified adddir perl script.

1) Cache the Forums list, with a configurable expire time possibly.
It takes a long long time to get this list and when you do lots of uploads
in sequence it's a real pain to wait for this list to be generated, even though
you know nothing has changed. I end up turning the verification off to speed
things up and had an 'oops' once that I had to clean up :razz:

2) Basically an addition to the cache, but if you add in support for creating new
nested albums, added them into the cache so it doesn't mess things up.

3) With a new nested feature, allow setting the Album name and Album title
when it's created.

4) Please annotate the file a little better in regards to function information.
Meaning, say what function does, arguments do and the values the arguments
take. Standard documentation type stuff.

I may try to institute the new nested stuff myself if I can figure it out but I don't have
much experience with php and I get confused easily going through the gallery source.
So my skills are limited but any hints in the proper direction would be appreciated.
 
vallimar

Joined: 2002-08-15
Posts: 487
Posted: Mon, 2002-08-19 23:37

Okay, I've institued the nested stuff and am happy with it for now.
Only works with my modified adddir.pl script though. If anyone
is interested, you may get the files here: <!-- BBCode Start --><A HREF="http://sexorcisto.net/gallery-patch/newnest.zip" TARGET="_blank">Zipfile</A><!-- BBCode End -->
 
s-fu

Joined: 2002-07-15
Posts: 22
Posted: Sun, 2002-08-25 05:00

I agree with 2,3,4,5.

4 is done on 0.4

Would like to have the following one,

1) Confirm the Album name after click the upload botton, since I have done many times wrongly on default Album.
 
mrjcleaver

Joined: 2002-09-01
Posts: 18
Posted: Sun, 2002-09-08 14:13

I'd like Gallery Remote to give me:
* the option of reducing the image size of the images uploaded (to either a destination res or a max file size)
* the option to rotate the images by 90 CW/CCW/180
* the option to annotate and for the annotation to affect both the original and the uploaded version.
and, less significantly,
* the option to crop the picture.

Maybe I'm asking a lot, but I like dreaming :smile:

Thanks, M.
 
paour
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Joined: 2002-08-14
Posts: 1479
Posted: Mon, 2002-09-09 00:16

I'll be adding client-side resize and rotate right after 1.0 preview ships (hopefully this week).

I'm not sure what you mean by annotation; we will be adding uploading of captions, but that's something we'll need to wait for the next Gallery update for.

As you said, cropping will be fairly low on the list. We're not planning to replace all image manipulation software. It wouldn't be nice to put Adobe out of business :lol:

 
mrjcleaver

Joined: 2002-09-01
Posts: 18
Posted: Mon, 2002-09-09 10:41

Rotation and resize this week. Wow, that would be great.

By annotations I meant both the EXIF embedded field on JPEGs and Gallery's captions.

Cropping: in fact I'd like to do that at both the client side and at the gallery side. But there are all sorts of adobe functions I'd like to have there :smile:

Cheers,
M.