[support] switching away from image module

[Ivan Sergio Borgonovo]

On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:23:20 -0400
"Jean Gazis" <jgazis at gmail.com> wrote:

> I also have a site where I really need it to be easy for users to
> upload photos, and it doesn't look like imagefield and imagecache
> are the answer to that, either. I might try one of the gallery
> mods. I've only used the gallery that comes with image.

I'm using it with 5.2... I used it with 4.5 or 4.7 and uploaded some
hundreds of images with no problem.
Yep... the upload part is hard to fine tune (permissions? quota?
taxonomy?)
So your main problem was uploads and erratic behaviour, is it?

> So it seems like the module has a reputation for being buggy, and
> is going wrong for me in more than one way, so I'm interested in
> alternatives. I'd prefer that they don't require custome theming,
> though, because I haven't gotten into that yet.

Well my problem was css were scattered in gallery2, block, gallery
etc... and having something that look good in drupal *and* in gallery
as a stand alone app was not that fun + some repetition not perfect
integration in "messages".
I'm not saying that it was terribly hard or impossible... just it was
boring and I think hard to maintain.

My concern is that while I find positive Image module looks like a
page node... maybe it looks like a page node too much, users should
have "less" freedom.

Just first impression... actually I was interested in your opinion to
standarize/invest in one module to build up galleries.

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Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
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