[Ids-devel] IDS and iPhoto - works great

[Arshad T. <ars...@sl...>]

Is there any future for ids?  I'm a huge fan, because it magically 
integrates with my iPhoto libraries and photo albums on my Mac.


Here's what I like about IDS (and why I prefer it to alternatives such 
as Gallery):

1) Generates thumbnails and different sizes on demand - saving time and 
space for less frequently visited photos.
2) Does not involve a cumbersome upload process (like Gallery did)
3) Allows visitor to choose default image viewing size - and I don't 
have to do anything additional to shrink images for web serving
4) (the best one), with one simple symlink, ids magically is serving 
all of my iPhoto libraries.  It's brilliant!  I did nothing!

(ln -s /Users/<username>/Pictures/iPhoto\ Library/Albums 
/Library/Webserver/Documents/<ids-folder>/albums)
- as long as permissions are leniently set, this will work.

Now, it looks like ids development has all but stagnated... hopefully I 
will have time to help - that is, if I'm not the lone remaining ids fan 
out there.

The one big obstacle to getting ids to work on a Mac.... it had nothing 
to do with IDS.  But getting ImageMagick and PerlMagick to work on the 
mac took me a couple of days the first time, and another 3 days to redo 
it with Panther (10.3).  It was a royal PITA.   Hopefully fink will 
take care of that when they update their ImageMagick package.

-Arshad