When galleries get big enough to start paging (or just big in general), the drag & drop UI becomes very awkward to use.
#1284208: Reorder images from one gallery page to another
To try and address the immediate problem faced by our content editors, I have built a tweaks module Media Gallery Extras that adds some utilities:
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Move to top/bottom
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To help alleviate the problems of drag&drop between multi-page galleries, additional context menu items let you bump an individual image immediately to the top or bottom of the list.
The code inside media_module was easy to follow, the required code was very small, and the tricks I needed to add this function were easy within the media_gallery architecture. It's a model way of being able to extend a module, and was fun!
My module could easily stand alone as an independent plugin, but maybe this handy UI improvement could be added to the project here in the future.
If it's worthwhile, this can be provided as a patch towards this project. In the meantime, folk can use this add-on if it helps.
Other ideas for better ways to manage large galleries would also be interesting to hear.
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