Lauch cooliris for whole albums?

ptl

Joined: 2003-06-19
Posts: 54
Posted: Tue, 2008-10-21 09:36

Hi,

first of all, uber-thanks for Gallery developers for 2.3 release. I have been using Gallery1 for many years, and updated to Gallery2 only a few weeks ago. My gallery has ~24000 pics, the G1->G2 migration was not 100% straight-forward, but the trouble *really* was wort it.

My advise for others migrating big (?) G1 galleries to G2: have reasonably modern hardware in the server, 800MHz PIII with 256MB was not enough, migration was somewhat unreliable, at least I had to try several times some transfers.

Gallery 2.3 support for cooliris is about the best one can imagine. I'm still smiling, and the reason is just browsing some old pics, but with so cool interface. Anyone not familiar with cooliris (ex-piclens) should definatelly try it.

But, to the point. Launching cooliris where I have normal pictures works fine. But is there a way to launch cooliris from album-level? E.g. from album that has pictures? What about if the album contains (only) sub-albums?

And is there a way to create shortcut to "cooliris-shows" for all the pictures in certain album?

Thanks,

-Paavo @ stiletti.wipsl.com/gallery
 
floridave
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Posted: Tue, 2008-10-21 14:11

There is work I think on making the slideshow recursive. Don't know how far it has gotten.

Dave
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ptl

Joined: 2003-06-19
Posts: 54
Posted: Wed, 2008-10-22 07:58

Are we talking about this: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1144960&group_id=7130&atid=357130

Some kind of randomiser might be cool, too. For example, the off-road competitions album (http://stiletti.wipsl.com/gallery/album125/) in my gallery has something like ten thousand pictures, having all these in a revursive slideshow might be a lot?

Having something like "show all pictures in random order" and/or "show max. NNN pictures in random order" (NNN=selected number, in the order of tens/hundreds/thousands) would take casual picture browsing to a new level.

BTW, http://gallery.menalto.com/sfvote is nice list, I used a few of my votes right away, "Slideshow should go down into sub-album as a choice" and "Improve performance" got +5. Need to go through the rest of the list...

-Paavo
 
rybred

Joined: 2008-07-30
Posts: 10
Posted: Fri, 2008-12-12 18:23

Also a feature that i REALLY wish we had was the ability to launch the slideshow from a dynamic album. most people visiting my site regularly just check the latest updates and being able to go through them with Cooliris would be the best thing evar!

Although i knew about Cooliris before when it was a standalone app, it wasn't until i discovered the Fireffox extension that made it the most awesome thing on this planet! (ok maybe exaggerating a bit)
 
suprsidr
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Posted: Fri, 2008-12-12 22:59
rybred wrote:
REALLY wish we had was the ability to launch the slideshow from a dynamic album

I know how to do that :)

-s
FlashYourWeb and Your Gallery with The E2 XML Media Player for Gallery2
 
suprsidr
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Posted: Sun, 2008-12-14 18:52

Place this in gallery2/themes/your theme/templates/local/theme.tpl <- you may have to copy yours here.
Just above the </head>

{if $theme.pageType == 'album' && $theme.item.entityType == 'GalleryDynamicAlbum'}
    {assign var="separator" value=''}
    {assign var="itemString" value=''}
    {foreach from=$theme.children item=child}
    {if $itemString != ''}
    {assign var="separator" value=|}
    {/if}
    {assign var="itemString" value=$itemString$separator`$child.id`}
    {/foreach}
    {if $itemString}
    <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Photo RSS" href="{g->url arg1="view=slideshow.SlideshowMediaRss" arg2="itemList=`$itemString`"}"/>
    {/if}
{/if}

Works for all dynamic albums including keyword and tag albums :)

-s
FlashYourWeb and Your Gallery with The E2 XML Media Player for Gallery2
 
rybred

Joined: 2008-07-30
Posts: 10
Posted: Tue, 2008-12-16 13:26
suprsidr wrote:
Place this in gallery2/themes/your theme/templates/local/theme.tpl <- you may have to copy yours here.
Just above the </head>
Works for all dynamic albums including keyword and tag albums :)

-s
FlashYourWeb and Your Gallery with The E2 XML Media Player for Gallery2

Thank you soo much! that works for launching cooliris now!

only thing i noticed though is that it only shows the stuff on only that current page, not the whole dynamic album
 
suprsidr
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Posted: Tue, 2008-12-16 13:35
Quote:
only thing i noticed though is that it only shows the stuff on only that current page, not the whole dynamic album

There didn't seem to be a way to do that in the theme itself. Maybe when I add this capability to the slideshow module we'll get the whole album.
But for now I'm showing all 24 images from my dynamic albums on one page 8 rows X 3 columns. <- You can control this in admin->dynamic albums

-s
FlashYourWeb and Your Gallery with The E2 XML Media Player for Gallery2
 
rybred

Joined: 2008-07-30
Posts: 10
Posted: Tue, 2008-12-16 18:58
suprsidr wrote:
But for now I'm showing all 24 images from my dynamic albums on one page 8 rows X 3 columns. <- You can control this in admin->dynamic albums

yeah, thanks for the lightning quick response! i do have it set to show 4x10 = 40 pics but i have made my dynamic albums huge (300) but thats my fault i know. still showing the 40 pics in cooliris is great so no real complaints there.

just love the power of the app for scanning through 100's of pics quickly (some of my albums are big).

only thing now is that i kinda regret organizing and splitting up the some of the albums because cooliris can't go into subalbums. if you use cooliris alot i guess it kinda makes you wanna group as many together as you can...
 
webmayin

Joined: 2005-10-16
Posts: 26
Posted: Wed, 2009-12-16 07:23

Can we put a link to the cooliris show in our "album actions" dropdown menu? Or a link right beneath the album thumbnail?