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Great survey! :)
Great job with Gallery 3!
i like the download function in gallery 2, missing in 3
I want to congratulate you for a great work in Gallery. This is the most amazing photo & picture gallery's software that I'd ever tried. I feel very comfortable with the software, developers are very gentle and nice people. Thanks a lot for your work and time for Gallery God bless you guys!
Keep up the good work!
Don't underestimate the imporetance of watermarks, most amateur and pro photographers like to tsee this implements as a "no-brainer" feature
I love gallery. I am super excited about V3 going final. I would really love to see some similar types of features like facebook regarding identifying people in pics thus making much easier to find pics of people later.
I love being able to have photos available at multiple sizes. That way I show a large size by default (1000px wide), just copy the medium size for posting to my blog(720px) and have the original(2048px), extra-large size available if someone wants to click through and see it.
I use g1, g2 is too slow and bloated
I cant wait for the new release of gallery
Please consider a new way to upload photos, similar to rsync: I would really, really, really like for Gallery to watch specific folders on my workstation. Whenever I press the "sync" button, any new/modified pictures/movies on my workstation would be uploaded to my Gallery install. Folders and timestamps would mirror my workstation folders and file timestamps. Some options should be available, like: mirror deletes? mirror timestamps? Exclude certain file extensions (AVI, MOV, etc.)? Include certain file extensions (JPG, JPEG, PNG, etc.)? Compare timestamps or checksums? Finally, be compatible with PHP safe_mode. Gallery is the only reason I have safe_mode disabled, and I have often thought about moving to another project just because of security concerns. The only reasons that I have not migrated are laziness and time limitations... :(
Keep up the good work on Gallery, wonderful software. looking forward to next release.
Make upload easy for non tech people, then you rock!
Thank you for all your work on Gallery. It is a great piece of software.
Keep up the good work!
I hope there will be a version without need of an extra database software, for easy backup and migration of the server.
The latest version looks great, but I'm waiting until there's an upgrade path from Gallery 1. Thanks!
I really like Smugmug for managing permissions and I really like Pixelpost for uploading one picture at a time with no specific permissions. The reason I stopped using Gallery was because (1) there were getting to be too many options and it was overwhelming and (2) I wanted to have easier to configure themes that were very simple "vanilla" design. Did not have time to mess with the CSS files anymore. I like the spirit and philosophy of Gallery very much and hope someday to use it again.
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I am very unhappy that multisite is going away with gallery 3.0. I am a gallery administrator and the primary motivation for switching to 2.0 was the hassle of upgrading a number of different gallery instances with 1.X whenever a security patch came out.
Thx and keep up the good work!
XHTML and css validation is important to me Thanks for all the work! Gallery is great! Using it since 2003.
Thank you for all of the work you have done and continue to do despite the negative feedback some leave you on boards and such. The vast majority of us forget to thank you.
Thank you for a great product!
1) Make permissions easier to do and understand to set for non-technical folks. I don't want my mom sharing private family photos by mistake. 2) Make uploading a LOT easier and faster. 3) ability to remove red eye from photos should be built-in to the product. 4) NOT flash. I hate flash and it's slow and doesn't work on older PCs or some Linux netbooks.
I love Gallery. Keep up the good work!
When I have time I will be using Gallery a lot more. I have about 20,000 family photos to scan and post. Gallery presents one of the better systems to try to organize and find what you are looking for, while making it managable and sharable with my family. I have Gallery installed on my own Windows 2008 server using Sql Server 2008.
Just love gallery! and best of all it is free and the support is good as well.
If you decide to include certain editing features, like photo rotation/cropping/resizing, please make them easy to use (in G2 they're not). If I have to use process images before uploading my photos, I might not use any of these features in Gallery as well.
Best usability/navigation I've seen is JAlbum, but it's still not enough to get me to switch from my homebrew publisher.
easy upload via iphoto or similiar rss feed with secret URLs for authentification (google cal like)
Keep an eye on the ergonomics of Gallery (for example: count clicks when switching from one task to the other)
key things: * must be easy to submit photos (even via email eg directly from my phone) * I like the idea of being able to tag or "star" photos from various albums and that they might appear in a "favourites" album (the original permissions would need to still apply though)
Keep it simple. Zenphoto is a good example and I would have switched except it was too bug ridden.
Thank you for the great product!
I think the new direction of Gallery is great! Redefining the focus and making the software more streamlined and better at a given task is wonderful and should help with future collaboration and releases. Keep up the good work.
Love gallery :)
I've been looking at Gallery3 (Couple of Alpha releases and Beta 1) and when compared to Gallery 2 this is a "lite" version. My biggest issue with Gallery3 is that it is really no different at all from say PhocaGallery (I use this) that's a plugin with Joomla. My current set up is Joomla for main web site and PhocaGallery for a simple easy gallery and Gallery2 for a real in-depth gallery. I totally understand why they created Gallery3 but in my opinion they broke a golden rule. If it is not broke don't fix it. Gallery 2 (with all it's features and how it operates) should have been the Project Specification.
The main items I really miss in Gallery today, are: - View theme/plugin for iPhone (I want to show off my pictures/albums using my phone!) - Tag people in a picture (like Facebook) and view dynamic albums with a given person - Integration with other apps (like WordPress) where a caption follows as the caption with the picture into the publishing system. Still, I am in general very satisfied with Gallery! Excellent you have such a study, and keep up the good work! ;)
I like the pace of development and open communication of development. price is right, although I have donated in the past. Been using it for 8 years, but now not as slick as the other offerings. would like to use it as photo backup as well as display, like phanfare.
Please make it so that I can import from another Gallery installation. I have two Gallery installs that I'd love to combine into one.
Major problem: my hosting company (1and1) limits the amount of CPU any process can use. This prevents me from porting my Gallery installation from v1 to v2, because the migration scripts are too CPU intensive. Please help!
I LOVE Gallery! Thanks for all the hard work and keeping it free.
This survey is about a photo sharing application. I use Gallery as a media storage and display application as part of integrated web sites. Many of your questions were either irrelevant or did not have proper response choices for my use cases.
I've been using Gallery for years and love the work that you do.
I'm interested in good easy instructions on installing (uploading) and maintaining Gallery. I would like to be able maintain a local installation and then upload this to the internet, and then to synchronize as I update the local installation.
I could be mistaken, but it seems as though gallery2 does not support the raw files from my Canon EOS 30D. Now that I think about it, I think it probably does using dcraw or something, but it didn't Just Work when I tried it before. I guess maybe (assuming I'm not totally mistaken) make it easier for RAW formats to work in Gallery. Thanks for the great software!
Better integration with flickr and wordpress would be one of the best things that you could implement.
I wish the Gallery3 focus was not SQL-focused. Gallery1 (and then 2) was selected for my personal gallery because it didn't require a heavyweight DB to implement. I want Gallery to just be Apache+some-scripting-language ideally. extend the user rights, easer to exclude foto's from open groups
Thanks for the great software and service!
I've been using Gallery for 11 years. It is a fantastic piece of software. Administration for larger groups is my only real complaint. Keep up the great work!
Thanks!
Gallery is too slow :)
Thank you!
thank's for your afford
I love this survey. It is easy to use and functional. If Gallery comes out like this it should be awesome!
gallery rocks!
Thanks for asking and keep up the good work Lookforward to Gallery 3 as I understand it is smaller in size, less usser options, easier to work with and configure
Thank you
your prioritize/sort the most important questions are flawed...some of those I don't care about, others equally. Bad survey questions. Otherwise LOVE gallery!
I think Gallery is excellent, which I use on the site of a community radio station I work for as the web manager, and it provides a quick and simple solution for the staff and presenting team to upload images of the station and community events for everyone to see.
I would really like to see proper color management in Gallery. At the very least Gallery should warn the user when a picture using an unknown color profile is uploaded.
Integration within an existing Joomla web site is important so I will only upgrade to Gallery 3 once a suitable bridge is made available either by yourselves or a third party.
Add in a touch of Flash.
I liked Gallery1 because it was very, very fast for the size albums that I was dealing with. I eventually switched to Gallery2 because of its hierarchical album URLs and better permissions management, but never was very happy with the speed. Overall, I like Gallery and appreciate how easy it is to set up on my own site.
One thing that I would really like to see in Gallery is the possibility to use external storage (Flickr, Picasa,...) while still using all of Gallery's features. Also: Keep up the good work!
I love Gallery and use it integrated with PHP-Nuke. I'm hoping that you'll continue the integration so I can upgrade to G3 when it's released.
Thanks for all of your work! Would like for the metadata (e.g. caption) that I set on my PC to get uploaded with the photos and get displayed. Would enjoy interaction with Windows Live Photo Gallery, e.g. use my tags and people identifiers.
To clarify the question about use, I do use Gallery personally...and I mean personally. I don't send people there often because when I am looking for a way to quickly send photos to share with friends and family, it's easier to create web gallery in Photoshop of just the images I want to share. I store my images in blocks based on file name, not by event, or date. But regardless, even if I did, I still wouldn't want to share every photo in a folder. My most wanted option is an easy way to link to a folder on my server (outside the web root) and just upload selected photos easily.
I've been using Gallery since the 1.x days and really love it. Keep up the great work!
I really like Gallery and am looking foward to Gallery 3 provided it retains most of the current Gallery 2 features that we have become dependent on.
The difference between captions/description and photo title is unclear to me. In Picasa and Lightroom both, when you enter a caption it gets treated as a description in g3, whereas those programs treat the 'caption' as the title. The mismatch between g3 and picasa / lightroom is somewhat confusing. (e.g., generating the title from the filename is generally useless in the digicam era where noone really names their files anymore; the title should come from the caption/description embedded by lighroom/picasa).
I love Gallery - keep up the great work!
I find it important that my photo gallery also support video. Extracting a frame from the video for the thumbnail would be helpful. A variety of batch-editing is an important thing for me to be able to do. I want to be able to edit all the titles for an album at one time instead of all fields like Gallery2 does. With Gallery3, to edit title and tags in a batch-mode would be helpful. With Gallery3, I would like to be able to specify the title of an image during the upload. I quite hate that Gallery2 and Gallery3 use the filenames of the images because the filenames from my camera are arbitrary. I don't want the filename to every be the default title for an image (though it usually makes sense for documents), and that is the biggest thing that annoys me about Gallery2 and Gallery3. Why would someone taking photos on a $100 - $500 camera for personal use want the file names that mean nothing to be the titles of the photos? I don't title all my photos, and it is a pain to delete the arbitrary filenames from the title (in Gallery3 and in Gallery2 when I forget to change the dropdown menu from filename to blank). For one of my sites, an organization, I've found that Gallery2 with its extensions and permission system is actually an amazingly good resource to do document management as well as photo management because permissions are easy to setup to allow only certain people to view certain documents. I recognize Gallery3's focus, but I'm going to miss this ability (at least, until someone makes an add-on).
Permissions are a critical component of Gallery. I really want to see that a top priority - to create permissions on a per-photo basis. I group photos by album but sometimes a photo is not fit for public viewing.
im looking for a gallery that can tag the persons in the photo linking it to the users registered in the allery software. that is the most important for me now
THX for all your work !!!!
Gallery is great. the new version Beta should be pretty cool. Hopefully, there'll be an integration with Drupal 6. A lot of the features that folks (I've spoken with) like are similar to ease like that of Facebook. I would like to implement Gallery again and disable Drupal's internal picture gallery. (I disabled G2 on my site because of integration and bug issues.)
Step 9 couldn't be done, probably because of incompatibilities of the survey with the Opera web browser.
Most of my images are of artworks - mine or a local society. Some are scanned rather than photographed. An "art gallery" makes as much sense as a "photo gallery". I find it irritating that Gallery uses the term "photo" when "image" would be more appropriate and more general
One thing regarding management/administration that could be more "complete" regarding Gallery 2. You can set quotas on users and groups which is good but administration, for example list of what users are using of their quota is not available. But all in all good application, keep up the good work! Software requirements on Gallery 3 are keeping me from using it though, can't use it with a very current and updated CentOS operating system. :-(
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I still use Gallery 1 because I was hoping to skip 2 in favour of 3. Don't know if I will, because 3 doesn't do important things. I NEED being emailed when album changes are made by others, or comments are added. Gallery MUST keep the concept of one or more administrators (for me to use it). I think Gallery 3 has to some extent thrown out the baby with the bathwater. (Though I haven't tried it of late, sick of trying incomplete alphas.)
Really, really would like an easy way to tag people in photos (think Facebook). (It's been a while since I've checked out a new version of Gallery, but it hasn't been an obvious addition - I've looked for it in the updates from time to time. If it could go the next step and recognise people like iPhoto does...another level! Wouldn't expect this though.
I'm eager to begin experimenting with version 3.0
Gallery is great, but I'm still using v1 because I've made a lot of personal edits (adding date counters for my kid's ages, etc) both to the the function of gallery and the theme used. It'd be great if there was a way to import that, or at least easily transfer that work into newer versions of Gallery. As explained in the survey, I also have a custom security scheme that makes it very simple for users to view my pictures (cookie set upon initial log in that expires in 4 months, but renews with each visit), but deters strangers. I don't want to force my family/friends to have to log in every time they visit my site. My site is hosted by GoDaddy via their cheapest linux hosting plan. I utilize Gallery Remote to upload photos.
Wonderful software! I use Gallery2 for multiple sites on the same server. It would be nice to have the slideshow view nested albums. I had trouble with the 3D, then had trouble uninstalling it. Finally got it uninstalled, though.
Yes, there is.
I think G3 is a long way towards what I'd hope for (THANKS!), tho will appreciate improvements. Theme w black/near black background will be good - would likely take me quite some time. I'd like to see more re internal linking; maybe able to add links to selected albums, to a menu appearing rather as tags menu. Good for user navigation, also for search engines. The nifty uploader will be good; so can add title, description, tags at upload time, rather than upload and then choose to edit photo info. - the survey question re "edit photo" importance not so clear to me. Did it mean edit info about a photo, or edit image itself in some way? I'd like to be able to post photos, and have some confidence that if someone searches for image of a certain type I have, my photo might appear in results, and "compete" w similar shots in flickr etc. (Yes, many other factors involved; but my sites compete pretty well for articles; I think can do better for images, tho don't check re these too much.) - not just for me, also for the few users who have so far added images to their own albums (in G2). Could in turn attract more to add photos; make them feel it's worth the time and effort to add to galleries on sites I've set up (aimed at being community, rather than my personal one), rather than "just" flickr, facebook, and even posting photos to forums - which popular here in Hong Kong. I barely knew how to reorder things like modules, ease of use, permissions... - kept thinking all seem important to me. Oh, and integration w Drupal could be icing on cake! Hope this info helps a bit; and that survey response strong. All the best!
Gallery is great. Keep up the good work.
Gallery is AWESOME. Thanks so much. From what I've read about Gallery3, you guys are absolutely on the right track. Can't wait!!
Love it!
I'm hoping Gallery Ver. 3 will be as good as promised.
It's a good way to say THANKS!
Make it easy, obvious, clean, and fast...and you'll have a winner.
The price drew me in, but Gallery2.3 is such a powerful tool that I've kept it as my only gallery software for years, the carbon theme just rocks and makes the photos stand out in wonderful splendor. My new drupal install is tailored to the carbon theme.
You guys rock!
I really like Gallery2 and have Gallery3 Beta 2 up and running. Looks very promising so far. What I would love to see is integration with Picasa. I use Picasa to orgainize Photos on my PC and then upload a subset to my Gallery. A tighter integration with Picasa would be great. Anyway, Thanks a million for this great software. Keep up the good work!
Keep on the good work and thanks for this excellent software!
I really think that a good looking, easy to use slide-show feature is a must. Image size and speed should have pre-sets but must be overridable by the user without haveing to think.
Thanks for all the work on Gallery, it's a great piece of software!
continue the adventure, I really enjoy the new gallery 3, easy to use anad administrate, easy to share, easy to collaborate with working users. Thank alot for your works ... Gallery is a good solution and have a good reputation. PS: try to find a solution for people who can not setup the safe mode off (safe mode on) try to find a solution vs. suhosin.session.encrypt
I really appreciate free/libre - open source software available to the whole community. I choose to contribute by sharing all my photos under creative commons attribution licence. Even though I am not a professional photographer, my photos are used by a few businesses and appreciated by many individuals. Thank you for providing me with the tools that help sharing! Feel free to use any photos from my gallery .
I like gallery, and would like to see it catch up with the ease of use of other online photo applications. It needs to be easy to use, gallery 2 is too complex.
Please avoid doing an "amarok" with Gallery. Gallery 2 has been a wonderful experience, and if I wanted to use Facebook I'd use Facebook (or whatever). Certainly I can understand wanting to overhaul the back end to make the product more maintainable. However, please avoid sacrificing 80% of the features when you do so. Sure, you don't need every bell and whistle from gallery 2, but 20% doesn't quite cut it. You probably don't want to end up having gallery 3 competing with a forked gallery 2 down the road. Some of the things I really liked about gallery is that it worked just fine with a browser without javascript, but it used JS to enhance the experience. I also liked that flash was not required (since it isn't well-supported on 64-bit platforms). In my trials of G3 I've found it to be difficult to use with anything but Firefox (or better still firefox on win32). Of course, that is still in development so I can completely understand this, but try to avoid too many non-standard items such that the product does not work reliably from alternative browsers or phones/etc (no phone that I'm aware of uses gecko). All that said - G2 is a GREAT product. Improving upon it will be a real challenge!
I don't consider Gallery for "photo management" - I see it for photo publication. Photo management is more about storage and indexing. I can see that Gallery *could* have a foot in that camp, but it seems the place more for a native application, and integration into desktop tools. But, good luck
Applications have to be fast. G3 seems to be a big spin. I run sometimes G3 in Joomla. They are both slow. I need to use the thumbs also in the CMS, e.g. with JCE. I want a workflow in line with Adobe Bridge. Templates are very complex to generate or customize. Please keep it simple. Thank you Gallery. You're great.
Thanks for your work...
Make an entire review of source code, algorithm to increase speed.
great software
I value photo level permissions, wish they were still in Gallery 3 !
G2 had the ability to add folder links. I use these alot and would need them in G3
keep up the good work :-)
Also very important Security - keep the hackers away. Reliable backup / restore. Security / feature updates. Ease of theme creation, without increased risk / complexity THANK YOU!!!
I think improving the user groups and allowing to add groups to groups, and users to groups for access to specific albums would be a great addition. I have been using gallery for 3+ years, and love the product. I have tried other programs and nothing compares to gallery. Thank you!
I currently upload photos with a plugin in iphoto. I need this option to be available or I will have to use something else.
Good job. Much appreciated!
I use gallery since many years, it's a great photo album engine. Thank you all for this work :-)
In my opinion, gallery is currently hampered by an image only being able to show up in a single album.
I liked Gallery 1. I hated Gallery 2. I haven't tried Gallery 3, but now that I'm using PicasaWeb, I probably won't be trying it.
I completely fail to understand the euphoric comments about Gallery 3. Gallery2 provides a much more comprehensive solution.
The one thing that should be improved with Gallery2 is SEO-ability, i.e. Google and other search engines should have an easier time crawling the gallery and allowing people to find images.
One feature I am sorely missing is the capability of Gallery to batch set permissions to a lot of photos. The best solution I have come up with until now is to move all the relevant photos to a temporary album, set permissions to that album (and the items it contains) and then move the photos to the correct albums in my gallery. But it would of course be much easier if I could just select the relevant photos and then choose the permissions to set on all of the selected photos... And: have you considered using JW Player (http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/jw-flv-player/) as the standard flash player in Gallery? I think that player has a lot of features that are great, needed and better than the standard flash player in Gallery 2. Other than the above I would just like to thank you very much for the great effort you guys do to make Gallery the best web gallery software out there. Can't tell you how much joy the grandparents to my kids get out of using your software (on my server) to be able to follow the kids grow up - even by distance.
good software!
Keep up the great work. Not a programmer myself but try to do my part by translating Gallery into Swedish.
Gallery is a great product. I use it since the first versions and I recommend it to people I know thanks for your work!
The scripted upload capability (eg. via the galleryadd.pl script using Gallery) is critical for the way I use my photo gallery setup. If it's not supported, I'll probably not use the software/service, and try to find something else. Graphically selecting multiple (eg. 300) photos for upload might do in a pinch, but I prefer scripted (and have it with Gallery 2.2).
Just superb software anyway! Thanks for effort!
gallery2 was a great product and g3 looks even better. I hope that the vast number of modules follows into g3 in time. thank you for this wonderful software.
I would love to see better compatibility (Windows, Linux/Konqueror etc) in webdav module. It is a really innovative idea, while its compatibility is far from satisfactory.
Thank you! For such a great product. Not sure how you are going to improve it. I look forward to it though.
Excellent job! Keep up the good work! There are lots of things I would like to see, but Gallery is still my #1 choice out there.
I really want the lens info in EXIF to automatically show in my Gallery. Anyway, You've done a great deal of wonderful job.
I would like to see integration with facebook connect - e.g. only my friends can log in and see my pictures.
Gallery is the tool I've been using to manage my personaly photos since version 2 in my home computer. It works great in the old PII 233MHZ machine and I really love it. I'm now looking foward to having Gallery 3 released out to the world!
I need continuous developement of Gallery2
I largely maintain my photo metadata in the JPEGs themselves with some client-side photo software. From gallery I mainly would like to see a perfect import and display of this metadata (with no characterset problems, novel ways of display, etc, etc.)
Integration with CMS is of key importance. There seems to be missing good Gallery bridges for both Joomla and Wordpress. This is a shame
I might soon buy camera with video function so better accommodation of video in Gallery (eg, a la YouTube flash player), would be a plus (eg, include videos in full screen slideshow feature). Also improved Google Map (including micro thumb nails instead of coloured pointers) would be cool.
Integrate with Facebook!!!
(1) Really excited that you're doing this kind of research- really terrific! (2) better site-wide stats would be nice; it was hard to answer 'how many people do I share with' because my current gallery install has pretty bad data. (3) 'twould be awesome if gallery was creative-commons compliant with this post: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/15768
Gallery is a great product. I look at the "public image" of my site as the most important aspect, so developing the behind the scenes stuff (admin, etc.) can take second place to what a gallery site looks like to the public.
Nice software, keep doing this.
Gallery is a great software ! Keep up the good work ;-)
THank you !!! Don't miss LDAP integration for authentication ;)
As a web application, supporting most popular web browsers is an advantage.
While I use Flickr for my personal photos, several organizations I support use Gallery for event photos on their web sites. This survey seems to ignore the possibility of organizations (rather than personal) using photos for their members.
Keep interface easy and fast - Important options to me is picture comments/descriptions and auto re-size uploaded pictures (and keeping originals untouched!).
Support for windows server would be a big plus
The most important feature I would like to see added is batch-upload possibilities and easier way of creating you own theme, for instance by way of CSS or instructions for that. I haven´t updated my version of Gallery whil I was running an album so I don´t know how easy a task that is. Other than that I am very happy with this product. I build websites using Joomla but haven´t combined it with Gallery yet.
Gallery 3, has some short falls but I under stand it is still really new and were you are trying to go with it. (import from G2 does not work, when hosting with 1and1.com) Thank you. Gallery, is a great tool and app; I have used it for many years. Thank you for spending the time doing this. I have shared it with many people.
User self-registration (any method: email/admin approval etc) is very important. As well as https
Thanks for all your hard work!
It is really important to be able to upload more than one photo at a time.
no
A bridge for Wordpress is essential for me and sadly WPG2 is not in development anymore ... so a kind of WPG3 is a must-have for me otherwise I have to move away from Gallery (which would be a shame - I love gallery)
No, Just the best gallery software I ever used.
I'd be great if Gallery could read a folder that alredy exists on the server AND create thumbnails in another folder. In doing so, the primary folder will remain unchanged and the user can arrange this folder as it pleases him (by FTP). for example, I have a folder on my FTP called "myPics". then I refer this folder in Gallery and Gallery is able to read this folder instantly. If one day I decide to remove gallery, my pics will be there and usable as before.
Please also consider that many users nowadays browse without flash/javascript (i.e. they are using NoScript or on a phone where flash is not working properly) and while I'm perfectly okay to require Javascript for uploads I think we shouldn't require Flash at all (nothing against optional flash for eye-catchers) and we shouldn't require Javascript or whatever (JavaFX, Silverlight etc.) for simple photo viewing and navigation. There should be a decent menu/navigation without any scripts, pure (X)HTML + CSS.
Gallery 3 wishlist : - Neat (themable) viewing UI - Good admin section (like WordPress for instance) - manage views, albums, permissions - API to have a clean integration with Lightroom (I develop the plugin) - Easy way to integrate content within WordPress (like for Flickr)
Keep up the good work. Maybe something you could eventually include on the site is how to customise the Gallery completely (so not talking about background colour & number of photos on 1 page). I have seen examples that look incrediably cool, but no idea how they got to that....
great project, keep it up! I am awaiting version stable version 3 patiently.
Very Important is the abillity to change the sentences, that are used in th language file...that is (for me) a big problem in Gallery2.
What I need is an image gallery, that is as easy to use as an online email account (for other users, not the admin). Then it is possible for me to share my pictures with all my family from age 4 to 85. For myself its not a problem to use upload scripts, cronjobs, ftp or what ever, but for the family it definitely is. And for that I need a good and easy to set usermanagment with loads of settings. I didn´t find it yet, but gallery3 seems to become the tool of choice.
Thank you for providing such high quality open source software.
Thank you for providing a program that was easy to setup and intuitive to use. Based upon the price and the software's features, I have very little to complain about. However, as usual with most software, the documentation is a bit poor in places. The setup, as I said was great. One of the few programs I work with that did what it said it would do, and had fairly complete documentation for the setup phase of the program.
Please continue development of Gallery 2. Gallery 3 should be called Gallery light, as very important feature were left out.
Any background audio capabilities on Gallery3?
thanks for your great work.
Thank you for the great job, Gallery is magic ;) A good shopping cart for Gallery will be appreciate...
I need to monitize my photo collection. I currently use snapgalaxy to provide customers with prints. My customers tell me they want digital downloads. I don't want to release the full quality photo as a download and I don't want different sizes to be cached on my server of every photo. I would like my customers to be able to select the photo and size, have the original photo be resized on the fly and let the customer download the photo. Of course there would be a need to integrate this with something like PayPal so my customers can pay for the quality of photo(s) they order. Thanks.
I would like themes that look more like a professional photographers gallery page instead of a blog. Carbon/Greymatter was the closest, but controls confused many viewer so I had to use album descriptions to expalin how to navigate the website. I would not have needed hard coded webpages if the G2 provided intro page (flash of an album), about me (module had bugs), services and pricing, contact page (module had bugs and could have used custom links along with email form for modelmayhem, facebook, etc.). I tried to change hosts with G2 and gave up. DB would never be compatible with new install of same version. Followed forum instructions. I'm now starting over with G3, but have not uploaded 8000+ photos that were on G2.
Though I currently like the multi-file upload in Gallery 3, Which is really nice, I would like a more *advanced* default access/upload through (s)ftp (Ie. direct file system access). In particular, I *really* like the way it's being handled in Zenphoto ( http://www.zenphoto.org/ ). Here you can upload directly to the album folder, and zenphoto will update your gallery when someone visits or you edit the album in the admin area. Also the upload/managing of non-media content, like zip files, is something we crave for. And the Download of both media and non-media files. Thanks. M.
Keep going to develop this amazing open-source solution !
please bring out gallery 3 soon
I want to emphasize that I have no background in IT but I try hard to make Gallery work for me.
One of the most important things to me is speed. When someone views an album, it must be displayed immediately without any delays due to large amounts of queries or calculation. This is actually the biggest issue I have with Gallery2 at the moment.
I would love LightRoom integration!!
Love Gallery, keep it up! Have used Gallery since early G1 days.
"Easy to Upgrade" is an important feature for me. I am very happy with the upgrade process in gallery 2 - I hope gallery 3 is just as easy or easier. I like the simple "svn up" and then web gui process. I also utilize a multi-site install at my place of work. I find it very convenient. Gallery is really awesome software. Keep up the great work. I am really excited about gallery3.
Gallery3 seems to be a very nice product, i'm very impatient to see it in final version. Hope doc about CMS integration will soon be released! thanks for your incredible work.
I like gallery 2 and am looking forward to version 3. One thing I did not like in g1 and g2: When creating albums I do not want to care about how the directories should be named. Would be greate, if g3 could determine this automatically.
my photos... ;-)
It would be nice to see in future Gallery releases: - Easier theming - JSON/REST API - Better compatibility with Windows (specially with ImageMagick issues, etc) - Avoid include no-opensource third party tools in main core package (Cooliris, etc) - Custom fields like in Wordpress - Image cropping (Jcrop) with the ability to setup as many thumb sizes as you want (per album) - The use of HTML5 capabilities (offline mode, storagement, html5 markup, etc) in browsers that support it
Keep up the great work can't wait until gallery 3 goes stable so I can switch over and try it out
The possibility to automate upload of pictures is the most important feature to me. The ease of use. Not by using the Gallery web page but by means of "API" or "Gallery Remote"-functionality to be able to use current Photo management programs.
Greater upload flexibility. Love Picasa Desktop, but hate Picasa web. It would be great if I could sync specifically tagged messages from Picasa Desktop to Gallery.
After installing gallery3 I'm not sure that it is the right software and philosophy for me. I'd rather stick with gallery2 as long as it is maintained. I apologize if I offend but with gallery3 I get the feeling of a folder on a hard drive with some fancy polish, when what I want is a database system (with fancy polish!) to manage and show my pictures. After spending a lot of time tagging my photos in my DAM I want to use that data in the presentation.
Gallery isnt easy to use for novices and causes big headaches for me managing a club gallery. Terminology is still ambiguous for many and the procedure to create albums and upload can be confusing. Other than that it is a great piece of software. If the use of gallery can me made so no guide needed "Gallery for Dummies", it would be a success story. Sadly I believe the developers will stick with gallery 2 terminology. Simplifying it was a great idea and should silence a lot of critics that prefer Coppermine. I was always annoyed that you needed a Menalto degree to tinker with it - deleting the bloated language files rather than having just the ones you wanted. The movie plugins were also a mess in G2. Looking forward to G3
I have been using the Gallery project for over 8 years now and I love the work has been done.
Please add more member management system, Banner or Ads management system, Logo & branding management, user interaction tools, user tracking tools, .....make it a full-function photo management portal.
great product!
Thank you for your work!
This is a very interesting survey! ;-) (and the survey system is very good)
LDAP integration would be lovely! Even better: pluggable Authentication and User Storage in general.
Priorities here: Integration and easy embedding (Wordpress), Admin and Ease of use. This will keep me using Gallery rather than Flickr... Thanks again! And keep up the great work!
What a superb approach to gaining user feedback - Very impressed!
Keep going!!!
Multi-language support is important
Disappointed with the upload of photos in Vista. I still have to use XP to upload because none of the Vista methods works.
Thank you guys for doing the work you do!
gallery3 is taking gallery in my preferred direction... less bloat, streamlined and easier to use... thanks!
Keep up the good work!
the speed of Interaction with datab sql databases sould be improoved. the cms joomla integration shoud be better
Thanks for Gallery it's great!
Improving user and group management is really important!
It would be nice to know an ETA on gallery 3 release date.
I use gallery instead of Coppermine because of the WinXP Publish module, My user base is my family like my mom who needs an easy way to upload pictures and the WinXP Publish module provides that. Also the ecard module is nice feature for the family. We use to use the comment module and that was fun but the spamming started on the comments and the captcha and comment permissions did not work in our usage scenarios.
It's good to use MVC to build a web app!
Gallery 3 may finally encourage me to upgrade from G1. I really do hope this is supported.
Please integrate with wordpress! =) And thank you for gallery3, it is simply wonderful so far in everything except the integration mentioned above.
o yeah!!! i love gallery!! thank you everybody who is behind it ! making the best product better!! Good Luck with Gallery 3
One of the best features of MobileMe's gallery offering was the ability to email a picture into a gallery. I frequently take pictures using my phone and send the picture as an MMS or Email. Sending as MMS resizes to a smaller image, but still allows me to send to an email address. One feature I _really_ want is the ability to email pictures to appear in a gallery. Of course, to make that work and easy to manage becomes tricky and makes installation even more complex.
Please don't mess up the links! To the greatest degree possible, keep up the redirects, clones, masks and whatnots so that whenever I change the name of a file/folder/group/album (be it by FTP/SSH or G3's own interface) or move any of those around, some URL magic compensates for that. The 'real person friendly' URL system thought out by the Exponent CMS guys is probably the best example I got: http://exponentcms.org/index.php?action=view&id=61&module=newsmodule&src=@random444fe03276195 (see the bottom) If you type in an invalid URL, the CMS will actually perform a search for the URL it thinks you were looking for. It requires apache mod_rewrite though, which isn't always a good thing, because it's cool when systems are completely independent :D
Since I take my pictures in RAW, this functionality is what I'm really looking for. Unfortunately I haven't had time to help out with this project, but it would be nice if exiftool module could be built. That would allow faster processing and less CPU usage. Also, I put GPS coordinates into all my photos, so the google maps plugin is key to me as well. On another note, this is probably one of the best managed open source projects I have seen. Great job.
It easy to upload and the cost
The main thing I'm missing from Gallery2 is good tagging support! The main thing I'm looking forward to seeing in Gallery3 is Gallery2's upload API, so I once use F-Spot to directly upload photo's to Gallery3. This is a must for me. Webbased uploading just sucks...
I will definitely continue with gallery if you can improve the ease of uploading pictures. I want to upload more at a time and from different folders.
I am not happy with how Gallery integrates with WordPress or the Mac iWeb program -- at least the last time I tried each of these. I would really like to be able to integrate it seamlessly so my Gallery page looks the same as the rest of my site without being "embedded" and having a different theme. Because of this, I nearly always have to link directly to the Gallery page on my website and avoid having users click through to gallery from one of the main frames. It's awkward and ugly.
The number one barrier to me using Gallery (and I want to use it!) is lack of knowledge of how to set up a safe, secure home server. If I could get that part behind me, then I would jump at the chance to use Gallery.
You guys are doing a fantastic job with the Gallery Project so far! I currently use Gallery 2.3 and won't upgrade to G3 until it is in full release as I will be switching from a very small home Linux server to a dedicated outside hosting company at that time when you do. I have an IT background (more hardware) but not much web management/setup experience and hope G3 will be straight forward to install and setup.
One priority of mine is being able to backup and restore the site.
I don't use only gallery, I want it embed into a wordpress blog and want the information between the two to be easy to integrate and use
Gallery2 is great, and I can't wait to try Gallery3. I hope that it will be easier to create a clean and neat layout.
Make it easy to use the images elsewhere. Post links on forums, use in blogs and so on. That includes easy, high-quality scaling of images as needed.
I have a gallery wiht 150 users and each user has its own album (gallery or. set of albums). Each user can post photos only in its own album with subalbums. For me it is extreamly important the permision to user to upload and edit photos only in its own album. It is also important that photos can be downsampled by default already on the users computer - so they don't owerload my gallery site. Thanks for all your great work.
Please make bulk captioning easier for large albums (ie facility to jump to pages, rather than starting at the beginning each time).
Go ahead with your good work, I like your software a lot. (The only gripe is the not-so-good UI integration of ZIP uploads. ;-))
Thanks for the great software. I certainly hope that v3 wil continue to integrate nicely into Drupal and possibly improve on this.
Great work with Gallery 3, go on!
I really like using gallery
Loving your product, using 2.3 at the moment, waiting for 3.0 till its finished
Used until recently Coppermine rather that Gallery because of reason I cannot remember. I changed to Gallery 3 because very simple and easy to use. User friendly interface, ... Hate organizing picture by tags Hate apps like Picasa were you cannot arrange sub albums & co... Love to organise by themes / subthemes ex: - Friends --- WE at mountain - July 2009 --- Party at foo - August 2009
I like-a do .. the cha-cha./ Nope.
I really like the Gallery software, I feel everyone is doing a great job and that it is a very professional package. I would rate this the highest quality Open Source software that I've used, and there are some really good products out there. Thank you for all your work on this, I appreciate it. Some sort if Facebook integration would be great. If I could tag a person (using Polar Rose for example) and an automatic facebook notification would go out to that user to let them know they were tagged in a photo on my gallery. Other than that, keep up the great work and thanks!
I like long-term support provided by Gallery. I hope that Gallery 3 will not mean dead of Gallery 2 project. I will use both, but each for proper task. Gallery 2 and 3 are substantially different in functionalities and they target different needs. Thank you for great software to share/display pictures on-line!
I would like to see something like Gallery Remote working for Gallery 3.
please keep on improving gallery3 performance!
you have it all
I think Gallery is a very good photo management system and hope its development continues.
I would like to be able to set the 'owner' of an album to be the person who took the photos independently from the user who uploaded them. For example, I often have to upload photos to my site taken by someone else. The other person has a gallery user account on the site (mainly for viewing and commenting), but for convenience it is better for me to upload them than them (e.g. bandwidth, technical competence, inclination, the list goes on!). After uploading their photos I would like to be able to set a particular gallery user account as the owner/uploader of the photos (similar to the 'chown' command in unix shell). Note this is different from the copyright info in the exif data. (This feature may already exist but I haven't found it yet!) Thanks for the gallery project, I find it very useful.
I have started coding sites in Kohana and would like easy to follow instructions on integrating Gallery3 with my Kohana sites. It would be especially nice to be able to integrate the Auth module setting.
Started to use the software just a couple of weeks ago. Find it hard to set-up correctly: - integration with CMS like Joomla, especially to find the correct bridge. - as alternative develop a module with a website frontpage for Gallery2 and/or Gallery3 - setting up correct access from outside the local intranet environment. Have the information from the forum put into How-To´s on the various subjects: - Installation on various platforms - Integration with CMS on various platforms - Security issues. I know there is info out there, but none is on a How-To basis. - Accessability from the internet. Part of it mentioned above that I am strugling with is lack of knowledge, but the availability of the right How-To documentation should any novice give the ability to make a jump-start and continue learning from there. Nevertheless I like the program as recommended in various fora.
Just a big thumbs up. I get so much pleasure out of my gallery.
I would like virtual albums that auto select photos based on tags, dates, people, or even clever stuff like blueish in colour or a shape like this one.
Gallery is a great product, please don't make it too heavy to clunky, or give us the ability to remove all that stuff and just have something simple and light and fast
Make a Flickr-similar layout and functionality and you've got a true winner. I have several photographer friends who use Flickr because of it's ease of use and simplicity. Many of them use it to upload original photos for easy reference and to use smaller versions generated for blogging. I've searched and searched for something like it and so far no luck. I really don't want to pay the yearly fee for a pro account anymore, so I'm hoping eventually someone is going to make one like it. Thanks for the hard work and valuing what we think of it.
Thanks for your effort!
I hope that in Gallery 3 there will be a photo people tag functionality. Something like "Facebook tag" Thanks Diego
Please keep up the good work!
no thanks
Sometimes Gallery is a bit slow... generally I really like it though I think watching users try to use it (including administrative tasks) would be helpful!
Integration: G3-API, FaceBook-integration, iPhone-support (both themes + app for uploading / managing photos + ACLs). A brand new uploader is needed, preferably built in C/C++, for lower footprint & higher efficiency. Being able to do a lot of work "offline", then do over-night-processes in bulk / batch, is priceless.
Gallery is grrreat! -Tony the Tiger
you did a great job, looking forward to a bright future for you
Many people are using image hosting/sharing sites to support their participation in Photoshop contest or other digitally produced work. So if you're too focused on "photography" you'll be missing a potentially large number of users. Also, I don't get the impression from your survey that you understand how crucial search capabilities are for services/software that provide access to large numbers of photographs. Sophisticated indexing, searching, etc... are a key distinguishing feature.
Keep on the good work, gallery3 looks very promising and fast. I love the way i can upload from my Mac with extended modules for iPhoto. This really makes uploading a breece. Similar tools (rescaling on local computer before uploading) are highly recommended. An improvement (not included in the survey) would be extended 'printing' features, some of my hobby enthousiasts would love to print the foto's at a site they known (in the Netherlands that is). Good survey, easy to fill in and complete!
I would like ability to somehow share tags i add to photos locally and online. Because now i have to add them in software i am using (Digikam) and later if wish to gallery.
I'm missing OpenId support
The Gallery project is something that i use and respect a lot. Its got SO much in it! Which in turn makes it good as well as bad :) I would very much appreciate some good useful documentation which allows me to understand the architecture and working of the software...which in turn allows me to customize the interface and interaction. For me, personally...i love to indulge in well designed products and services. Good design means something which has a lot of thought behind its existence...an attention to detail. If this thing is lacking, i would very much appreciate a learning resource or guide which allows me to undertake the endeavour on my own. As a human factors engineer, i have worked and still work in multi-disciplinary fields involving product design, software interfaces and engineering to name a few. One thing that i have experienced over the years is that if something is made well for someone...the reliance on documentation is minimal. If thats not the case...the documentation and support is where the money needs to be invested in. (As is the case with most software companies and their products today...the business model revolves around support contracts!!) I hope this version of Gallery is more user centric and better documented. And i will be more than glad to assist in the design and documentation phases! Cheers and stay well.
Looking forward to trying Gallery 3!
Thank you for all your efforts on Gallery over the years and for contributing it to the world. This has been my "must have" application for years. I switched from one CMS to Drupal a few years back simply because the Gallery integration was good. I really like the simplicity so far for G3, and am hoping the integration to Drupal will work well too.
I probably wouldn't look at changing placing my photos on flickr unless flickr did something to upset me, people I interact with on flickr changed or there was a way to import my photos to a new service from flickr.
Better integration with GPS would be great (exif). I would like to see a gallery 3 wordpress plugin, and an uploading application that automaticly resizes jpegs, but keeps the data (camera settings...)
I'm looking forward to reacquainting with and using Gallery again.
thank you for gallery3... its wonderful
I'd love to see the ability to find "similar looking" images - not tag or description based, but, for example, given an image of an albatross flying in the sky, similar images would be airplanes flying in the sky.
go on ! thanks for your work
I'm waiting for bytemark vhost packages to support debian Lenny then I'll be trying out gallery 3.0
digital asset management has become a major issue for us. we are looking at replacing gallery with a system that offers good slide show and viewing capabilities and extensive tagging and search features.
Thanks for all the hard work y'all do. 3.0 is coming along, and I'm really looking forward to seeing the final release!
keep on the good work. improve the desktop client.
Too sad I couldn't mark an entry like "I'm a interested and rather advanced hobby computer user" in question #26 - yopur qusetions rules out all hobby users
The #1 reason I chose gallery over Coppermine or any of the others was the ability to have a photo in multiple albums at once. For example a sunset photo at the beach would be in both beach and sunset albums. That alone is the most IMPORTANT feature.
Better Diashow please ! Better Upload MORE AJAX (scroll through albums/pics etc)
I've been using gallery since g1 sometime in 2003. I quite like the power of the features in g2 but the user interface could be easier. I am currently using g2 integrated in wordpress and am dismayed at seeing the wpg2 project abandoned - I hope g3 will allow wordpress integration. There is quite a bit of documentation for g2 but I think it could still be improved considerably. To me the quality of the documentation is ultimately what determines whether software is easy or hard to use.
I integrate Gallery with Wordpress and would like to be able to migrate to gallery 3 and not have to re-embed the photos in posts
Attractivity of the gallery is also very important. I mean a flash like interface will be a big strenght. I know that Gallery is not in flash and flash is not open source but perhaps it's possible to integrate a free flash gallery in the center only for the display of the photo. There's two advantages : the appearence and the protection of photo. Many Thanks for all your good job
Thank you for all your work towards this project!
Thought this survey would be more about Gallery and how it is used. I am a little disappointed.
Hobby photographer for 50 yrs + now using camera for charity as well as family pictures. Using Lightroom 2 as main presentation and post production as well as CS3 when layers required. Printing up to A3 for competition work as well as varing media for portraits. Tend to use Jalbum to provide album space, restricting access to who I wish to view. Member of various Photographic forums as well as doing "tutorials" for Youth Groups and the like.
thanks for your work!!!
please include the option to "upload" photos from the local server with symbolic links
This survey is too long.
The addition of lightboxes would be a useful feature, and the addition of a more refined e commerce solution. Currently you have the best tool for displaying photos, and a poor one for the e commerce.
I primarily use digikam as my image management system, easy export (i.e better than current) is a must for me to start using gallery again. That and more advanced user management. Not having to 'upload' rather give gallery a url or file location would be a great advantage (have many T's that I would like to host, so dulication is a real pain)
Thanks, you guys rock.
I used Gallery 2 one or two years back and had all of my photos on it. I always had problems upgrading and lost three times or so all of my photos, because I received some themes error. After a while I decided to post them on a commercial website (Fotki) because there I don't have the problems with upgrading the software. I hope you will make it easier to upgrade for Gallery 3. Thank you.
I am currently using Gallery2. I tried, one time, to ask everybody to put their photos (of the event) on my website. I tried to put maximum explanation and everything but it appears that most of non-IT people were unable to share their photos (looks too complicated for them of not enough explicit).
I've been using Gallery for years and have avoided Gallery 2 since it was a slow, difficult piece of software to use. I like where Gallery 3 is heading. I hope, hope, hope that G3 will revert back to what G1 had in the way of image path's G2 introduced a silly identifier in the path which made scripting impossible for me. I use Gallery to manage the images, but I used html img tags in Drupal to display my pics.
It would be great if gallery would detect persons, would present me with persons which are not named and offer me to name them (first it should try to name them by asking me if the person displayed is X, if the probability is high that it is the person X which was named already in another picture) or to ask me later or to never ask me again. It would also be great if there's a feature which allows semi-automated tagging of pictures based upon some automatic picture/title/comment analysis. Another great feature would be to list pictures where there's a multi-language description or title (or whatever field), but a field in a language is not filled out (e.g. if field A and B have content in language X, and field B has language in field Y, gallery should tell me that field A has no content in language Y, if no field has content in language Z, it should not tell me that there's missing content in language Z).
There are 2 main things I would to change in Gallery: 1) Mass photo permissions editing (see previous comments), 2) Improve quality of re-sized photo rendering. If you compare the results in Flickr and in Gallery in most of cases the Flickr photos are considerably better.
When uploading photos (webdav or From Local Server) the data folder gets corrupted with folders or files not registered in the database. I would like a tool to "cleanup" the data by deleting the files or updating the database ( this could be the best way to add large number of photos to callery2) or updating the database and moving errors to a admin area. (3 different user selections for cleanup ).
I dropped Gallery because of the myriad of problems associated with moving the gallery and database. These functions never worked properly for me. If that is fixed in Gallery 3 I will be back. Other must have features include sorting and gallery within gallery funcionality similar to or better than those currently available in G2.
I would really appreciate a "subscribe via email" function to announce new galleries via email. I am using version 3 (beta 2) for about 3-4 weeks now. It’s the best tool I have used so far and I would like to contribute some features, but my background is Java and not PHP. However: keep going – it is brilliant. Cheers, Gerald
I would like to see an iPhone friendly plugin or website. I have difficulty logging in to see pictures on the iPhone.
First of all, thank you for a great product so far! I have been using G2 since it came out and have developed the occasional theme for website integrations. I really am looking forward to the new G3. I hope it does not break any old meta data when upgrading, though. I hope that G3 can change the way I manage the pictures in our collections so that browsing can become more intuitive, more tag-based. Family pics for instance are usually not easy to place in just one album. In other words, an album tree might not be necessary anymore and I'd like to focus on dynamic, tag and date driven views.
Yes, we are big on Watermarking because that is a great way of viral marketing. This is one of the main reasons why we love Gallery and the add ons. Thank you for being a great photo system and I hope you keep up the great work!!! Thanks on behalf of our non-profit organization.
integration with other application (joomla, Wordpress, etc) are extremely important. would like to make it easier to share photos and reorganize content
Excellent product. Very easy to use and has complex features that you can use when needed. Great for the professional or personal and I love that you use OpenSource software so that I can make minor mods/customizations and implement those made by others in your forums
Your application is certainly the most powerful online gallery software. The choice of a complete restructuration was a very wise one. Concentrating on usability and ease of administration/upload should be your major concern.
I was just looking for a decent gallery to host some pictures I'd like to make available to the general public, preferably with the ability to link to specific pictures or galleries.
Integration with CMS like Joomla (doing it currently via JFusion, but direct integration/support from Gallery would be easier). Using Lightroom plugin to publish which works fine. Hopefully will be supported by Gallery developers. For the rest; for me it is important to play around with the layout and display IPTC/EXIF & XMP info on the site. So keep the support for this up to date.
As a web designer, I wish Gallery were more like Wordpress -- clearer, more logical to the end-user hooks that I can incorporate into templates. I do appreciate all the time and effort put in by the developers and I like lots and lots of things about how Gallery handles medium-to-large libraries of photos. WPG2 is also very, very important to me, I hope someone continues to develop it or its successor. Thanks!
Thanks for putting together a great program, I've used Gallery 1.x for many years (and still do). I have tried to upgrade to gallery 2 a couple of time but I couldn't do it. I'm looking forward to a leaner, meaner 3.x :)
I did not notice any mention of learning, or sharing photograpy knowledge. This is important to me.
integration with digikam, I love digikam. Do help make the gallery kipi plugin work wordpress support, an Addin for wordpress would be awesome. themes themes themes unlimited file size uploads..none degradable pics upon upload.
Thanks for all your work. Keep going!
I have been using Coppermine for 12 years. I never liked the flimsy Gallery features. If you are compiling Gallery to compete with CPG, I'll take a look. I'm kinda sick of the rude attitude at CPG anyway. You should keep posting to their forum.
I realize that Gallery's target platform is Linux, but if the developers would provide help or documentation as to what aspects of the code need to be changed for Windows compatibility, I'm sure the community would step up, myself included, chiefly I have problems with the graphics kits and their detection, etc.
Gallery is a great s/w solution for corporate photo management, however the one thing it lacks is out-of-the-box integration with authentication schemas (Active Directory, LDAP, OpenID, etc). This is necessary for it to gain greater acceptance in the corporate IT environment, and in turn will generate respect for OSS.
Hard to rank the feature set. Without most of the features listed, I wouldn't be using Gallery. It's got to work and be supported. And have lots of options. I don't use editing of the individual photo because I manage and edit my photos with Aperture (I guess a question about how Gallery fits or other software used could have been in the questionnaire. Bottom line, Gallery is for web site, Aperture for everything else. I would prefer Aperture handle making web pages, but it doesn't and I can't imagine it will do a good enough job even with the next version (since it's a pro software, I guess Apple assumes that they have hosting services). Carry on, you're doing a great job.
Yes!!! Finally!!! The entire reason for taking the time to complete this survey was to request a Facebook style Java based integrated photo upload applet. It would be VERY helpful to be able to see thumbnails of photos on the local disk and not just a list of filenames, which are usually numeric meaningless names. We would like to see this functionality integrated into the Full Gallery core, and not need extra software installed. As well, this should use software such as Java... something that is generally installed on properly administered computers! ;-) I would like Flash less than Java.
I do like the Ajax theme but it does not work on many servers...If I were you I would work on an interfaceto make it more "flash like", dynamic. I do enjoy the photo showing when the whole screen fades to dark, semi transparent black and only the photo is visible - no menu and so on. I would like to see it in ... maybe Gallery3 ... I am really waiting for it! (but Beta version has to high requirements for my server right now... :( ) (I mean too high php version)
Great work with gallery, i look forward to using the new version
After I upgraded to gallery 2 I practially stopped adding new photos to my gallery. It was too much of a chore, too many steps involved in setting permissions, options etc. Stuff was abstracted and generalized too far away from the actual usage, compared to gallery 1. Aslo This survay intermingled Easy and "a variety of" far too often. I don't really want a multitude of features each half-baked. A single good one is better, then perhaps another one.
The slideshow feature is very important to me (it is a pain to have to click to move to the next photo, and impossible if you want photos to be changing in the background automatically). The slideshow in Gallery 1 is actually a lot better than the default one in Gallery 2, and even after uploading a third party updated slideshow module (which allows delay time and a couple of other items to be changed), I still prefer the slideshow from gallery 1, as the gallery 2 show seems slower. Gallery 3 sounds interesting, but I still use php4 and MYsql 3, so don't think I will be able to move to gallery 3 for quite a while.
Gallery is a wonderful product, I've used several different photo galleries and gallery is by far my favorite. I am eagerly looking forward to ver 3.
I really like Gallery and whole heartedly support its further development. I would welcome the ability to have a more customised front end. I think the back end in terms of database functionality uploadability administration and image management is fantastic
Good Luck Guys!
Well, I'm currently trying to use drupals own image handling efforts , but these are no way near gallery's capabilities. I've been happy enough with the level of intergration except for the insertion of gallery images into drupal nodes. Perfect would be ( apart from a port to drupal which would be ultimate ) would be the ability to use fckeditor and the imce browser to include images into posts. Drupal is the best CMS there is with a brilliant community . Gallery is the best at media management . Drupal and Gallery together .... a dream.
The ability to view statistics and track user activity is very important.
You guys rock. I've been using Gallery for 7 years, and while Gallery 2 was a little painful, Gallery 3 has been just as much fun as those first hours of discovering what you could do with Gallery 1. Cheers. :-)
Great Software
Another great UI is facebooks photos. Keyboard-arrow key navigation, stupid easy interface, stupid easy adding of photos, stupid easy highlighting of people in photos. KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) to the max is good. On a few of your questions I have follow up: "how frequently have you uploaded photos to share" It would be never if the ultimate setup existed. This is because there would be zero manual uploading ever needed to be done. You would take the pic on your wifi or cell enabled device, and dependant on rules you have set in place, it would instantly or later in the day batch upload the photos u take automatically. No interaction needed. Iphone could do that today. An inbetween for non-internet enabled digital cameras, is that integration into various photo management tools would mean that any photos you add to the photo manager, gets automatically uploaded at night to the site. "how many people do you explicitly share your photos with" Not many, but itd be more if i could link it to social sites like facebook or flickr. Reach out, make some cooperation agreements with the big boys. If both parties gain, it works. Facebook already has simplistic integration with gallery 2. Take it the next step and allow face book users to comment on gallery 2 sites without loggin in again. Make connection links between the two sites seemless. Bring in more people for both sides. Integrating with other popular photo organization programs. Ex: iPhoto. I use this because I havent seen much better. Really though, it sucks. It is not intuitive. Less so than gallery actually. I had to read the instruction PDF to know how to use iPhoto. That should not be necessary. Anyway, you should allow iPhoto to automatically upload to gallery. There are good plugins that exist, but they are not automated or have extra features. Choose 12 popular photo managers and integrate automation with each. You might even want to treat it like syncing. Sync gallery with your photo manager. Work on visual UI for others who are coming to your site. I do not have time to create a template similar to the ajaxy ones on facebook and picasa. They are really super simple though. Make 12 templates available that are each fundamentally different. Get rid of the tons of info that clog current gallery setups. No ones wants to know iso ratings, comments, titles, at the album level. Encourage template design and mod. An online "store" of templates along with a rating system would be slick. Maybe you already have that?? Glowing Praise: Your coding style, methods, UI, slickness, ease of install, modularity, each of EVERYTHING, is fuckin sick. I mean it. It is the best open source personal shiznit out there. Keep up all of that slickness and ease of use. Upgrading inside the UI!? progress bars, choosing modular components while in the UI....keep it up. It rocks!
