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twalker
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Posted: Wed, 2006-01-11 13:18
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twalker
Joined: 2004-06-02
Posts: 7 |
Posted: Wed, 2006-01-11 13:18
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Hi, |
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Posts: 6818
Hello Tom,
currently we dont have "superglobal" operations in G1.
But i like the idea.
Would you be interested in working on this together with me for 1.5.3 ?
Jens
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Last Gallery v1 developer and translation manager.
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Thanks for your kind response Jens. Unfortunatly I am not a developer just a user. I really appreciate this great software and the hard working folk who put their time in.
I run it for my brother, I gave him Gallery 2 (embedded in Worpress) but he did not take to it. Gallery 1 still takes the prize for usability in his opinion.
I thought that supplying the right options to do_command.php might be the answer.
Best Regards, Tom.
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well "working together" does not mean you have to code.
I think more like in the way how it should be like ?
In a usability view.
Because i think other options make also sense to be set globally, but some not and so one.
So you could tell me how you or your brother would expect this feature to appear.
Jens
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Last Gallery v1 developer and translation manager.
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Hi Jens,
It is a realy good question.
From an Admin point of view with config.php it would be easiest to have an 'Upgrade All albums' option in the config wizard. This might be reasonable to ask for.
The dilema is that from a UI point of view it looks great to have the
./gallery/album.php start page contain all the albums laid out there.
./gallery/
-/foo
-/foo2
-/foo3
-/foo4
...
-/foo9
The first few clicks are all important to maintain user interest. If you take the more logical layout of:
./gallery/
-./foo
______./subfoo
______./subfoo2
______./subfoo3
______./subfoo4
______...
______./subfoo9
This layout introduces confusion for the user. No matter what frames are put around the sub-albums the layout is still not as intuitive as a simple list of albums used in the first example.
What makes it difficult to apply properties is that this only works for sub-albums. The point being in that the ./gallery/ root does not count as an album itself. I am not asking to be able to add photos to the ./galley/ root but just to have some of the options available there.
I know that this is where logical backend design and UI design clash in a way but what would make it really easy is to be able to apply properties to all albums in the ./gallery/ root.
So there are basically the two options.
1. Make the option availible in the config wizard. (perhaps easier to implement)
and/or
2. Allow the ./gallery/ root to have the drop-down options available on the startpage.
Sorry to demand more after the Gallery 1 team has introduced some very cool and welcome additions. I do not mean to stifle the pioneering spirit. I only would like to see this great project reach more users and defy as much UI critisim as possible.
From the point of view of a user such as my brother I guess it would be better to be able to apply all options globally. I can see that logical way that these options have been added but something is not quite right yet.
In my initial question I really wanted to know if there was a way to create a url that simply did the job. e.g set_albumName=*, which of course would not work but hopefully illustrates what I am after.
I am not sure that at this stage in Galley 1 that all these changes are reasonable to ask for as the UI is hard to reinvent (as I have found in trying to answer this question).
I know that there are thousands of gallery users out there and this request comes on behalf of the folk out there who use www.myspace.com and find www.deviantart.com a bit too hard a learing curve despite having the most fantastic UI designers.
Thanks again for all your hard work on this project and please feel free to point out any thing that does not ring true as I really am just trying to decide what would work myself.
Tom