Chris Green wrote:

On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 09:15:54AM +0000, Jenny Hopkins wrote:

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I've just installed Gallery on Debian testing

I installed it on my hosted web site but then never went any further,

<snip> I'd be interested in hearing your experiences.

This is a "me too".

I've installed it on a Debian Stable web server but not really played with it much. I was a bit disappointed it can't just take a directory of images and deal with them automatically as the directory is added to. IIRC you have to use the gallery interface to add images. At the moment I've resorted to exporting iPhoto Albums as web pages uploading them until I can find a better solution. iPhoto automatically deals with thumbnails, titles and captions etc.

So I too would be interested how you get on.

On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 11:56 +0000, Tim Green wrote:

On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 09:15:54 +0000, Jenny Hopkins hopkins.jenny@gmail.com wrote:

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Anyone else tried Gallery?

I briefly looked at Gallery a year or two ago, and I didn't like the presentation interface (though I am aware it is supposed to be very customisable). Instead I have been using igal to make my galleries which I then manually upload and link into the index page.

So that's 3 negatives. Anyone else?

I installed Gallery a year or so ago and have been quite happy with it. I've not pushed it far, just picked a standard theme and kept it up to date. It all depends on what you are after really.

Gallery aims to be manageable from a web interface and does that very well from what I've seen. You can upload multiple photos and it will sort out the resizing and creation of thumbnails for you. You can add galleries and manipulate existing ones as well as allow people to manage their own, have comments, etc..

If you are after a static gallery of pictures that won't change and are happy to cod up HTML for links between galleries I suspect igal will do very nicely as it creates a set of static web pages automatically for you.

Very different aims, so its a case of what do you want from you package. I'm going to take a closer look at igal to see if it suits what I want to do with some things since I don't need multiple user modification for all sites and I'll likely not be changing the images.

My ideal would be somewhere in between the two where a script simply generates the gallery on the fly from a set of images in a directory (probably with thumbnails cached somewhere handy). So long as the overheads weren't too much that is. A script that auto generates an index with auto-generated pages for individual pictures with next and previous should do for me - which will get me back to the Perl v Python v PHP debate I go round while I'm trying to find the time to code up some more bits for my websites!