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[git.ikiwiki.info.git] / doc / plugins / contrib / album.mdwn

diff --git a/doc/plugins/contrib/album.mdwn b/doc/plugins/contrib/album.mdwn
index ce3c101848b5a781da21653e5fac2e5714fcf4e9..9fac111647a1ac6b7ef8164c8590ad4a8317dab2 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/plugins/contrib/album.mdwn
+++ b/doc/plugins/contrib/album.mdwn
@@ -20,11 +20,20 @@ recommended.
   with a full size image, optional next/previous thumbnail links, and
   optional [[plugins/comments]]
 
   with a full size image, optional next/previous thumbnail links, and
   optional [[plugins/comments]]
 

+### Altered Demo
+
+[[!template id=gitbranch branch=cbaines/album]]
+This uses the album plugin, with some altered css, and with the css applied to
+all of the themes.
+
+* [Simple album, rendered using mutiple themes](http://cbaines.net/projects/ikiwiki/album/dest/basic)
+  using the ikiwiki logo.
+

 ## Installation
 
 ## Installation
 

-[[!template id=gitbranch branch=smcv/album4 author="[[Simon_McVittie|smcv]]"]]
+[[!template id=gitbranch branch=smcv/album5 author="[[Simon_McVittie|smcv]]"]]

 
 

-Available from [[smcv]]'s git repository, in the `album4` branch.
+Available from [[smcv]]'s git repository, in the `album5` branch.

 I've called it `album` to distinguish it from
 [[contrib/gallery|plugins/contrib/gallery]], although `gallery` might well be
 a better name for this functionality.
 I've called it `album` to distinguish it from
 [[contrib/gallery|plugins/contrib/gallery]], although `gallery` might well be
 a better name for this functionality.


@@ -35,7 +44,12 @@ individual photos can't be bookmarked in a meaningful way, and
 the best it can do as a fallback for non-Javascript browsers
 is to provide a direct link to the image.)
 
 the best it can do as a fallback for non-Javascript browsers
 is to provide a direct link to the image.)
 

-Updated, April 2012: rebased onto the version of [[trail]] that got merged
+Updated, June 2014: integrated changes from [[KathrynAndersen]],
+Lukas Lipavsky and kjs
+
+An `album6` branch is also available, but is less suitable
+for manual installation since it needs core IkiWiki changes
+(until [[bugs/trails depend on everything]] is fixed).

 
 ### Manual installation
 
 
 ### Manual installation
 


@@ -45,15 +59,15 @@ First, you need a version of ikiwiki with the [[trail]] plugin merged in
 Manual installation requires these files (use the "raw" link in gitweb
 to download):
 
 Manual installation requires these files (use the "raw" link in gitweb
 to download):
 

-* [album.pm](http://git.pseudorandom.co.uk/smcv/ikiwiki.git/blob/album4:/IkiWiki/Plugin/album.pm)
+* [album.pm](http://git.pseudorandom.co.uk/smcv/ikiwiki.git/blob/album5:/IkiWiki/Plugin/album.pm)

   in an `IkiWiki/Plugin` subdirectory of your configured `plugindir`
   in an `IkiWiki/Plugin` subdirectory of your configured `plugindir`

-* [albumviewer.tmpl](http://git.pseudorandom.co.uk/smcv/ikiwiki.git/blob/album4:/templates/albumviewer.tmpl),
-  [albumitem.tmpl](http://git.pseudorandom.co.uk/smcv/ikiwiki.git/blob/album4:/templates/albumitem.tmpl),
-  [albumnext.tmpl](http://git.pseudorandom.co.uk/smcv/ikiwiki.git/blob/album4:/templates/albumnext.tmpl) and
-  [albumprev.tmpl](http://git.pseudorandom.co.uk/smcv/ikiwiki.git/blob/album4:/templates/albumprev.tmpl),
+* [albumviewer.tmpl](http://git.pseudorandom.co.uk/smcv/ikiwiki.git/blob/album5:/templates/albumviewer.tmpl),
+  [albumitem.tmpl](http://git.pseudorandom.co.uk/smcv/ikiwiki.git/blob/album5:/templates/albumitem.tmpl),
+  [albumnext.tmpl](http://git.pseudorandom.co.uk/smcv/ikiwiki.git/blob/album5:/templates/albumnext.tmpl) and
+  [albumprev.tmpl](http://git.pseudorandom.co.uk/smcv/ikiwiki.git/blob/album5:/templates/albumprev.tmpl),

    in your configured `templatedir`, or a `templates` subdirectory of your wiki repository
 * the album-related bits from the end of the
    in your configured `templatedir`, or a `templates` subdirectory of your wiki repository
 * the album-related bits from the end of the

-  [stylesheet](http://git.pseudorandom.co.uk/smcv/ikiwiki.git/blob/album4:/doc/style.css)
+  [stylesheet](http://git.pseudorandom.co.uk/smcv/ikiwiki.git/blob/album5:/doc/style.css)

   (put them in your local.css)
 
 ## Changing the templates
   (put them in your local.css)
 
 ## Changing the templates


@@ -91,14 +105,6 @@ template:
 
 ## Bugs
 
 
 ## Bugs
 

-* `thumbnailsize` doesn't actually work, they're always 96x96.
-  [[KathrynAndersen]] suggested a fix on the [[discussion]] page;
-  search for her name and look for a context diff.
-
-* The album index is limited to 10 images. kjs suggested a fix on
-  the [[discussion]] page: the plugin should pass `show => 0`
-  to `preprocess_inline`.
-

 * There's currently a hard-coded list of extensions that are treated as
   images: `png`, `gif`, `jpg`, `jpeg` or `mov` files. More image and video
   types could be added in future.
 * There's currently a hard-coded list of extensions that are treated as
   images: `png`, `gif`, `jpg`, `jpeg` or `mov` files. More image and video
   types could be added in future.


@@ -125,9 +131,9 @@ template:
 
 * The generated viewer page should extract as much metadata as possible from
   the photo's EXIF tags (creation/modification dates, author, title, caption,
 
 * The generated viewer page should extract as much metadata as possible from
   the photo's EXIF tags (creation/modification dates, author, title, caption,

-  copyright). [[smcv]] has a half-written implementation which runs
-  `scanimage` hooks, and has an `exiftool` plugin using [[!cpan Image::ExifTool]]
-  as a reference implementation of that hook.
+  copyright). [[smcv]] once had a half-written implementation which runs
+  `scanimage` hooks, and an `exiftool` plugin using [[!cpan Image::ExifTool]]
+  as a reference implementation of that hook, but has lost that code somewhere :-(

 
 * There should be an option to reduce the size of photos and write them into
   an underlay (perhaps just the transient underlay), for this workflow:
 
 * There should be an option to reduce the size of photos and write them into
   an underlay (perhaps just the transient underlay), for this workflow: