Gallery 3 looks nice. Any update on getting gecko (or another theme) active?

angelphoto

Joined: 2009-03-17
Posts: 3
Posted: Tue, 2009-03-17 06:12

Hi there,

I've been searching for a good gallery management app and Gallery 3 looks promising. I was using dfgallery 1 but the new release just won't install on me (very sad since it looks pretty cool).

Gallery 3 is nice but it looks like the themes are something of a separate entity. What I'm really looking for is a way to embed a gallery into my site that others can't mess with. dfgallery was nice b/c the flash module allows you disable printing (not foolproof but you'd have to do a screen capture and cut/paste to steal images).
The flash stuff from piclens looks cool but I'm not a big fan of the whole 'scrolling wall' tends to make me dizzy.

Anyhow, if anyone has any good suggestions for a theme/end user site I could build off of gallery 3 people write me.

~ Angel.
 
alecmyers

Joined: 2006-08-01
Posts: 4342
Posted: Tue, 2009-03-17 08:56

(moving this thread to the G3 zone)

G3's still in alpha; there are no themes other than the supplied one at the moment, but the community will no doubt be creating and contributing some in the months to come.
 
angelphoto

Joined: 2009-03-17
Posts: 3
Posted: Tue, 2009-03-17 14:52

Thanks.

Does anyone know if the gecko structure is completely different (i.e. non-transportable) to the Gallery 3 system?

Thnx.
 
alecmyers

Joined: 2006-08-01
Posts: 4342
Posted: Tue, 2009-03-17 15:01

Not sure what gecko refers to, but basically, yes, if it's part of Gallery2 then it will need a ground-up rebuild for Gallery3.
 
angelphoto

Joined: 2009-03-17
Posts: 3
Posted: Tue, 2009-03-17 15:18

My understanding is that Gecko is a popular theme that is used with Gallery 2.
There's a post on the forum that speaks a bit about it: http://gallery.menalto.com/node/84846

You can see the theme here: http://www2.ramoth.org/gallery/main.php
and the 'Gecko' link at the bottom contains the download.

I liked it b/c it looks pretty clean. I guess it will be up to the developer to think about if he requires a hop to Gallery 3 to update his theme though.

Thanks for the info about the lack of compatibility in Gal 3 (better to know what is true than burn time trying to figure out why nothing works).
I have given the v 3 Documentation a quick view but I'm not a PHP developer so I think I'll have to wait for the good folks here to come up with some snazzy end-user focused themes.

I will say that the install was a breeze. I've had my fair share of painful configurations to go through in the past when loading software onto my hosted servers but thankfully this was dead simple.

All the best,
~ A.