hey
i'm finding a LOT of slideshow modules, but particularly, too many jQuery Carousel modules.
any plans to merge/replace these kind of modules?

jCarousel (jquery plugin) modules (the big two):
jCarousel vs JCarousel formatter framework

Views modules (depends on the modules above):
Views Carousel vs jCarousel for Views

Other similar modules:
Carousel - uses jCarousel (jquery plugin), the reincarnation of jCarousel for D7, in development
jCarousel Lite - uses jCarousel Lite (jquery plugin), limited configuration
Views Slideshow JCarousel Thumbs - uses jCarousel Lite (jquery plugin), integrated with Views Slideshow
jQuery UI Carousel - uses jCarousel (jquery plugin)
jcarousel block - uses jCarousel (jquery plugin), very limited configuration

there are a few other jCarousel modules and lots of other slideshow modules (many use jQuery.cycle or other plugins)

Comments

quicksketch’s picture

Right now I'm working on a 2.x version of jCarousel module which will at least address some of these concerns. I originally started this work as a new start to the mostly-abandoned effort to make a new project just named "Carousel". But in the end I found that it's pretty silly to have a new project named Carousel that uses the jCarousel library (since it's pretty tied to the library). So instead I'm starting a 2.x branch of jCarousel that at least accomplishes the following:

- Merges in Views Carousel.
- Merges in the existing jCarousel module.
- Will have a Drupal 7 version (making Carousel module unnecessary).

So that at least merges together 3 of the projects into this one, which is a good start I think. jCarousel Formatter Framework could probably be merged fairly easily too, but I haven't taken a close look at that module since it's dependency chain is too silly for me to investigate.

jCarousel Lite and jQuery UI Carousel make sense to keep as separate projects because they use different JavaScript libraries.

jCarousel Block is entirely unnecessary IMO because you could easily make a block in Views module that uses the jCarousel display style.

quicksketch’s picture

Title: merge with similar modules » Merge with similar modules (2.x version of jCarousel)
Assigned: Unassigned » quicksketch
quicksketch’s picture

Version: 6.x-1.x-dev » 6.x-2.x-dev
Status: Active » Fixed

I've branched the project for the new 2.x version, available as a dev release at http://drupal.org/node/982718. Let's go ahead and close this issue and work on individual problems as they come up, rather than starting a long thread on this "meta" topic of merging modules.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.