[ansel] More feature requests

Chuck Hagenbuch chuck at horde.org
Mon Jan 19 07:02:01 PST 2004


Quoting "Heath S. Hendrickson" <heath at outerspaceconsultants.com>:

> >>2) Ability to upload all photos to a single image repository and them
> >>assign them to galleries.  This way you could put one image in multiple
> >>galleries and only have to have one copy on the server.  This would also
> >>simplify the XP publish function by eliminating the gallery
> >>selection/creation part.  All the photos go into a single bucket.
> >
> >Okay, but... is there a reason you think we *need* to simplify the XPsupport,
> >given that it all already works?
> >
> I guess my point isn't so much about simplifying the XP publich code,
> but making it easier to build and tear-down galleries.  Right now you
> can create a new gallery, but can you create a new sub-gallery?  If so,
> it's not obvious how to do it.  Right now a gallery is kinda fixed.  I
> can't move a photo between galleries without having to delete it and
> re-upload it.  I can't have a single image file be shared between
> galleries.  I'm not knocking what's there, I'm just thinking of features
> that would be nice to have in Ansel.

Yes, you can create subgalleries (look for the "Add a subgallery link". Careful,
it has ninja skills). Yes, you need to be able to move images around - it's
already in docs/TODO.

> Is the datatree driver just a rename of the old category driver or are
> there any noteworthy differences in implementation?

Rename. All there in the CVS commit logs...

-chuck

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