Re: [Tikiwiki-devel] imagegal file storage and The Three Rules...

[brian m. <be...@cm...>]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 08:07:01PM +0200, WEBER Patrice wrote:
>   - to add new storages options to allow, for example, to specify an
> existing directory (with sub-directories) as a tiki filegallery (which
> also allows other applications to access those files, for example
> through webdav or on the server...) : not started yet

That would be nice.

So in filegallib allow for a per-filegal directory?  Maybe make
hashing optional to appease other applications?

> So... As you can see, it would be nice if you could join the effort and
> have a look at file galleries instead of image galleries. I think you
> only need to implement your second proposition (that stores files with
> real directories, subdirs and file names) + maybe a simple cache of
> resized images.

Well I would want other features (metainformation from EXIF tags for
example) in image gals.  Though perhaps other file formats (doc/pdf could
display creator, page count, etc) would need that too...  An unwritten
wishlist item of mine.

I'm not too concerned about the rescale/thumbs other than the amount
of 'noise' they add to a single-directory-filestore, tripling the
size of the directory.  Disk space is cheap.