My wishlist for the plugin would include:
- Reading exif info from the imagefile
-- Keeping the full resolution image files out of version control
-- Being able to create new albums by tag or bym anually picking images from other albums. Could be a simple comma separated list of viewer names, or even full urls, in the album directive.
+- ~~Keeping the full resolution image files out of version control~~ Solved this by simply creating a underlay for the images. Works out of the box for my non cgi workflow.
+- Being able to create new albums by tag or by manually picking images from other albums. Could be a simple comma separated list of viewer names, or even full urls, in the album directive.
+- A counter showing **current image/total number of images in album**. This would mean that you know how many images you have left to click through before you have seen all images in an album. This gives you enought info to decide weather to click through or go back/leave.
--kjs
>
> For the third, you can get the same practical effect using an inline
> as documented in the main page. --[[smcv]]
+>> The downside to current behaviour is that clicking an inlined thumbnail will take you to the original album context. Previous/Next image will not match the thumbnails in the inline but the thumbnails in the album. This is a bit confusing for users and prevents using the image in multiple contexts without duplicating the image. To achieve what I'm looking for there would have to be several AlbumViewer pages for a single image. --kjs
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> An optional `show` parameter would be a possible enhancement beyond that,
> although I don't know how useful it would be; if it isn't passed, the
> default should be 0 (unlimited). --[[smcv]]
+
+----
+
+## bug?: all albums and pages become interdependent
+*(ikiwiki master branch 2014-06-06 and smcv album4 branch)*
+
+On a site with the following structure where all album$n.mdwn files have the ``[[!album]]`` directive set. All albums and albumviewers get rebuilt whenever any one of the pages is touched and the command ``ikiwiki --setup debug.setup --refresh --verbose`` is issued.
+
+ /index.mdwn
+ |-album01.mdwn
+ |-album01/
+ | |-imgA.jpg
+ | |-imgB.jpg
+ |
+ |-album02.mdwn
+ |-album02/
+ | |-imgC.jpg
+ | |-imgD.jpg
+ |
+ |-album03.mdwn
+ |-album03/
+ | |-imgE.jpg
+ | |-imgF.jpg
+
+This happens even if the indexpage has no links and when the tree is one level deeper than above with a folder between the index and each ``album$0n`` tuple. Touching index.mdwn rebuilds for instance imgF viewer and output like for example the following as a result of changing ``album01.mdwn`` and issuing ``ikiwiki --setup debug.setup --refresh --verbose``
+
+ building album02/imgC, its previous or next page has changed
+ building album03/imgE, its previous or next page has changed
+ building album02.mdwn, which depends on album02/imgC
+
+In other words using the album plugin means all changes trigger full rebuilds (as far as I can tell). With my workflow this hasn't been much of an issue as my sites are static and updated maximum once a week but it does make comments unfeasible.
+
+Perhaps there is something in my setup that triggers this problem? If anyone has an ikiwiki album installation where ``--refresh`` limits the scope of the rebuild to just one album I'd be interested to hear. See <http://img.kalleswork.net> for an live website that has this problem. I've tested a simpler debug site without any customization as well. --[[kjs]]
+
+