Re: [Ids-devel] Symlink Album's not showing up

[Brian Y. <br...@sp...>]

>    There are no layers to those icons.  If you look in themes/[your 
> theme]/images/ you'll find all the icons used.  The only part of the 
> albumicon.png file that ever gets updated is the white square.  The rest 
> doesn't get touched at all.

I've snagged the icon that I am seeing and stored it at
http://wlkerboh.mine.nu/~briany/broken-album_icon.png .  There is
definitely something other than the standard grey on the back two
layers.  Borders are also white, not grey.

>    Apache might not be able to read the physical symlink.  It can read 
> what's within it (the other albums), but not the symlink itself to 
> figure out what icon to use.

briany@alobar:/home/httpd/htdocs/ids$ ll
[...]
drwxrwxr-x    3 briany   users        4096 Mar 26 10:05 admin/
drwxrwxrwt   12 apache   apache       4096 Jul 17 18:30 album-data/
drwxrwxr-x    3 briany   apache       4096 Jul 17 18:28 albums/
-rw-r--r--    1 apache   apache        750 Apr  3 12:23 ids.conf
-rw-r--r--    1 briany   users       39430 Mar 24 20:02 idsShared.pm

briany@alobar:/home/httpd/htdocs/ids$ ll albums/
total 4
lrwxrwxrwx    1 briany   users          19 May 12 21:11 Brians_shots -> /pics/Brians\ shots//
lrwxrwxrwx    1 briany   users          14 Jul 17 18:28 Denmark -> /pics/Denmark//
lrwxrwxrwx    1 briany   users          19 Jun 21 16:14 Fremont_Solstice_Parade_2003 -> /pics/Fremont\ 2003//
lrwxrwxrwx    1 briany   users          16 May 12 21:11 New_Years -> /pics/New\ Years//
lrwxrwxrwx    1 briany   users          23 May 23 17:35 Seattle_Aquarium -> /pics/Seattle\ Aquarium//
drwxr-xr-x    2 briany   users        4096 Mar 24 20:02 Stephan/
lrwxrwxrwx    1 briany   users          23 May 12 21:11 Vancouver_Mar-03 -> /pics/Vancouver\ Mar-03//
lrwxrwxrwx    1 briany   users          24 May 25 17:12 Woodland_Park_Zoo -> /pics/Woodland\ Park\ Zoo//

briany@alobar:/home/httpd/htdocs/ids$ ll /pics
[...]
drwxrwxr-x    1 briany   users        4096 Jul 27 17:28 Brians\ shots/
drwxrwxr-x    1 briany   users        4096 Jul 17 18:28 Denmark/
[...]

briany@alobar:/home/httpd/htdocs/ids/albums/Denmark$ ll
total 36
drwxrwxr-x    1 briany   users        4096 Jul 17 18:13 Copenhagen_Beginning/
drwxrwxr-x    1 briany   users        4096 Jul 17 18:28 Copenhagen_Ending/
drwxrwxr-x    1 briany   users        4096 Jul 17 18:19 Legoland/
drwxrwxr-x    1 briany   users        4096 Jul 17 18:21 Malmo/
drwxrwxr-x    1 briany   users        4096 Jul 17 20:50 Odense/
drwxrwxr-x    1 briany   users        4096 Jul 17 18:22 Roskilde/
drwxrwxr-x    1 briany   users        4096 Jul 17 18:24 Slagelse/
drwxrwxr-x    1 briany   users        4096 Jul 17 20:50 Stockholm/
drwxrwxr-x    1 briany   users        4096 Jul 17 18:25 wedding/

>    Also, you mentioned something about the _icon.txt file.  Keep in 
> mind that it's a single line of text, without a CR/LF at the end. 
> Having a CR/LF in the file will result in it being ignored all together.

Even though vim doesn't appear to think there is a EOL there, wc sees it:
$ wc Denmark/album_image.txt Denmark/Malmo/album_image.txt 
      1       1      43 Denmark/album_image.txt
      0       1      27 Denmark/Malmo/album_image.txt

So that explains why the icon entered manually doesn't work.  I swear
that there is no second line in vim when I edit the file.  Only the
space filling ~ appear below the line.  (Maybe this is vim being too
smart for me...)  Even doing a 'echo -n
/Denmark/Copenhagen_Beginning/100_0470.JPG > Denmark/album_icon.txt'
results in an EOL in the file.

Any idea why the icon wasn't being randomly generated in the first
place?  Any plans to create an entry in the admin pages to allow one to
'use this for top album icon'?

-- 
Brian Youngstrom
br...@sp...
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