Hello,
kudos for you're work on this module. I've been working with a lot of Drupal Gallery solutions in the past (Acid Gallery, image_gallery, self-written galleries, CCK+Views solutions and lately node_gallery) and am always evaluating the pro's and con's. Lately, I've also been contributing to node_gallery. I'm asking myself how we will continue in D7, though, and so I'm always watching media and media_gallery. Is media gallery meant to be a complete solution, also for huge galleries, user galleries, gallery hierarchies, etc.? Or is it tied to the drupalgardens small private page audience? How would one extend media_gallery, e.g. with Slideshows, pagination of the gallery page, etc.?
In other words, should other contrib modules build on top of media gallery?
Greetings
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Comment #1
Scott J CreditAttribution: Scott J commentedIt would be great if other projects such as Gallery formatter, Simpleviewer and Gallery API could get involved also, to provide different presentations.
Comment #2
JacobSingh CreditAttribution: JacobSingh commentedYes!
So, when we started planning galleries for DrupalGardens we knew we wanted to use Media and we knew that we wanted a really polished UI experience. The reason we didn't go with many existing solutions was one of the following:
A). Based on views which wasn't ready.
B). Files as nodes - which is not very performant or usable.
C). Not using media (duh, they are all D6) so no sexy interfaces
D). Interfaces were not newbie friendly and it would take a lot of work to get them there.
D was the kicker in many cases. So media_gallery is meant to be usable first, extendable second. That being said, it's built on top of standard APIs (Entities, fields, styles, etc) so I think you can get creative with it.
I don't think it will cover all Gallery use cases, but it would be interesting to explore the ones you have in mind.
(Btw. the gallery collection page is just a term - we intentionally removed access to the taxonomy administration pages because we hadn't solved the usability problem of multiple gallery collections).
Hope that helps,
Jacob
Comment #3
webankit CreditAttribution: webankit commentedIs cck+ views integration possible...
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lsolesen CreditAttribution: lsolesen commented@scroogie Do you have anymore insight to this issue, or should it be closed?
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ivnish CreditAttribution: ivnish commented