A Few Questions After Starting with G3...
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Nosaj
Joined: 2004-10-01
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Posted: Fri, 2011-02-18 16:08
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I setup a Gallery 3 install to test out how it is different from G2. We currently have a G2 install with about 35K photos, so I wanted to do what I could to make sure the goes well when the time comes. In working with the tester G3 install, I have come across many questions. Several of which I have been able to find answers to in the forums/support docs, but there are some I have not. I may need break these out into separate items if I get feedback. I found out how to copy the default them and put more thumbs on a page by changing the CSS (which still scares the hell out of me that I am going to blow something up). I found out how to set the size of my resize images without pushing them out into the sidebar. I found out how to put watermarks on just resizes and not thumbs. But these still have me stumped... 1. Any suggestions for a cart-like module that would let users see a page of thumbs, check ones they want, then click download to get all of the selected images in a zip file? I have found modules that do this for a whole album, subalbum, or even to add images to a shopping cart to purchase through PayPal, but nothing quite like I am looking for. 2. Any suggestions on how to have multiple watermarks available? I support different groups of photographers and each group would like to have their own watermark. Right now we just use all 3 groups names on the watermark (but that irritates them a bit!). 3. Can you use a JPG (or other file format) to set a custom thumbnail for an album, but not have that JPG actually be in the album? 4. Can the title or filename appear under a thumbnail, rather than just when you mouse over it? We use specific naming structure and being able to see a name can tell a lot about where similar photos might be located. 5. Any suggestions for a module that allows two sidebars (a right and a left?) By far, I am pleased with G3 from what I have seen so far (the slideshow function is great), but I definitely have that stranger in a strange land feeling about it. G3 with 100 photos runs slower than our old G2 with 35K of photos, but it is on different hardware. I am still trying to figure out how the search feature works (it just doesn't seem to find the same info as before), quick ways to add info to photos, and a few other things, so I think it is just a matter of me figuring out where to look for a setting or (shudder) a CSS file to edit. Any points in the right direction would be appreciated. Thank you. |
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1) right now this is the only cart module for G3:
http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery3:Modules:basket
2) Not right now or without someone creating an additional module for that. I really doubt that functionality will make it into the core watermarking module though so it'll have to most likely be from the community. Not a lot of people want/need that functionality.
3) Not right now. I haven't seen anyone mention they are working on a "custom highlight" module yet. Well you can, but you have to manually create the thumb and replace it in the appropriate place under /var/thumbs
4) Yes. It's not a "switch" to turn off or on, but that's just pure HTML/CSS there. So you can dig into editing your theme for that.
5) I would suggest no module for this, but creating a custom theme.
http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery3:User_guide
http://codex.gallery2.org/Category:Gallery_3:Themes
http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery3:Themes <- The beginings of our theme development docs (thank you Retroguy for updates and major cleanup there)
Bharat has shown/believes G3 is faster. I have my doubts for some stuff. G3 (not tweaked or caching anything) is almost as fast for me as G2 set to cache everything. I think there is much improvement that can be made in G3 and ultimately G3 will be way faster than G2 ever had a chance to. To be far, test G3 on an equivalent setup as G2
Why shudder for a CSS file? Themes in G3 are way easier to make modifications to than G2. If you know HTML and CSS that's all you need. Don't be scared by the bits of PHP tossed into the templates. If you want to override some other CSS just toss your changes to the bottom of screen.css under your theme.
Get Firefox installed with the Firebug extension and start inspecting the page. Makes finding the CSS needed to change elements of the page really easy.
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