Suggestions

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I'm pretty sure some of these have already been suggested and may even already be an option that I'm overlooking. However, I'll list them just in case.


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1. Nested Albums
a. The ability to setup a "Master Gallery" that contains "Subgalleries". In my example clicking on the Hawaii master gallery takes you to a new page with three subgalleries, each of them indicated by one image. Clicking on any subgallery takes you to that gallery.
b. Also, a way to specify which image will be used for master gallery and subgallery indicator image. Currently I think you can do this but it's from a list of predefined choices such as random, newest, most popular, etc.
c. Ability to specify custom size of these indicator images using any of the resize methods.
d. New photo indicator. If a gallery contains new photos since last visit some kind of indicator showing which gallery has the new photos.

2. Links
a. Ability to either remove or customize the links at the top of the page (I realize this can currently be done by editing the header.php but it would be great if you could do this within the admin panel).

3. Sidebar
a. An option to not display the sidebar.



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4. Navigation
a. I've stood over the shoulder of some family and friends and watched them navigate and noticed that some of them seemed a little confused on how to move about the photos. I think it would help to have an option to center the microthumbs over the photo and to have the typical "next" and "previous" arrows for navigating the photos.

5. Clicking photo get you
a. Current choices are next photo, nothing, multiarea navigation. I would like the option of showing 100% view when clicking the photo.

6. Exif
a. I think you said that you had already implemented exif reading. I don't know if you have heard of jhead but if you haven't already coded the exif function it might be useful (http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/jhead/).

7. Email notification
a. Allow users to request to be notified when new photos are added. If possible make an admin option for setting threshold number of new photos before this is triggered. For example, a notice will only go out when there are 5 or more new photos. I would want to avoid notifications going out if I just modified an already existing photo.

8. Forum
Nice work on the new forum! When I was evaluating other gallery software one of the other packages (which I wasn't crazy about) had a really nice forum setup for support (http://gallery.menalto.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=PNphpBB2&file=index). I think it would really helpful if you had several categories for the EE support forum including Installation, Suggestions, Troubleshooting, etc...

Thanks for all the work on this great software!

[Pekka]

1. Nested Albums
a. The ability to setup a "Master Gallery" that contains "Subgalleries". In my example clicking on the Hawaii master gallery takes you to a new page with three subgalleries, each of them indicated by one image. Clicking on any subgallery takes you to that gallery.

EE 1.5 has 1-level deep exhibition grouping, where each exhibition can belong to any number of groups. This system will surely expand in future versions, as soon as all navigation solutions are handled so that they work on all platforms and browsers.

b. Also, a way to specify which image will be used for master gallery and subgallery indicator image. Currently I think you can do this but it's from a list of predefined choices such as random, newest, most popular, etc.

In 1.5 you can put any photo as group icon. You may also use those automatically selected thumbs/microthumbs.

c. Ability to specify custom size of these indicator images using any of the resize methods.

Group photo can be of any size, exhibitions use either thumbs or microthumbs from exhibition (their size can be userdefined).

d. New photo indicator. If a gallery contains new photos since last visit some kind of indicator showing which gallery has the new photos.

Yes this wil be added to todo list, and will be implemented as soon as cookie version is done.

2. Links
a. Ability to either remove or customize the links at the top of the page (I realize this can currently be done by editing the header.php but it would be great if you could do this within the admin panel).

OK.

3. Sidebar
a. An option to not display the sidebar.

The index page layout will be "templatized" as list and photo pages are now in 1.5. Then you can do it as you wish. To do it on current version you'll need to do a new indexstyle with new layout.

4. Navigation
a. I've stood over the shoulder of some family and friends and watched them navigate and noticed that some of them seemed a little confused on how to move about the photos. I think it would help to have an option to center the microthumbs over the photo and to have the typical "next" and "previous" arrows for navigating the photos.

There are two features in 1.5 which let you do this quite easily:
1. template /pagetemplates/photo/default.php
2. translation file languages/xxx/photo.php

template lets you do the layout, and in translate file you can replace texts with images hence have buttons instead of next, previous and photo browser text links, as mentioned in http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=22449

5. Clicking photo get you
a. Current choices are next photo, nothing, multiarea navigation. I would like the option of showing 100% view when clicking the photo.

What is 100% photo? Do you mean open it in new (or same) window in full? In 1.5 this happens when you select "current photo only".

6. Exif
a. I think you said that you had already implemented exif reading. I don't know if you have heard of jhead but if you haven't already coded the exif function it might be useful (http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/jhead/).

I will code my own full EXIF solution - RC (release candidate) of 1.5 will now use some code by Jim Wood, but that will not cover all EXIF areas. Reason I am also reluctant to use any external EXIF code is that EE is shareware and you never know what happens with copyrights with free or GNU licence add-ons. I think I can do it - I did XMP, and full custom ftp implementation, too :)

7. Email notification
a. Allow users to request to be notified when new photos are added. If possible make an admin option for setting threshold number of new photos before this is triggered. For example, a notice will only go out when there are 5 or more new photos. I would want to avoid notifications going out if I just modified an already existing photo.

Yes, on todo list.

8. Forum
Nice work on the new forum! When I was evaluating other gallery software one of the other packages (which I wasn't crazy about) had a really nice forum setup for support (http://gallery.menalto.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=PNphpBB2&file=index). I think it would really helpful if you had several categories for the EE support forum including Installation, Suggestions, Troubleshooting, etc...

Yes, this will happen eventually.

Thanks for all the work on this great software!

Cheers!

Thanks for good feedback.

Pekka