[META] Upcoming features and improvements [#1516168]

In-progress features

Media Gallery Directory module (ability to configure a subdirectory path per gallery with patterns/tokens support). Related issues:
Media Gallery Statistics module (media hit/view counter, reports, top media/galleries, etc.)
Media Gallery Multiform module (fix incompatible dependency with Multiform 7.x-1.0 module without hacking .info file) Related issues:
- #1420216: Can't install because of newer version of multiforn (incompatible with version 7.x-1.0)
Gallery personalization/customization. Related issues:
- #1354146: Removing unwanted fieldsets & blocks tab
- #1165804: How to remove certain fields from being displayed

Planned features

Dynamic galleries: adds "virtual" galleries (and blocks) that show recently added media, popular media based on the number of views, random media, etc.
- #1255454: Random Image in the block
- #1454724: Media gallery block with latest images from ALL the galleries
Gallery collections feature and friendly usage. Related issues:
- #1037002: New feature: Gallery containers

Unplanned features

Order media galleries by date, name, etc.
Fine grained permissions.

Comment	File	Size	Author
#3	enable-gallery-collections-1516168-3.patch	843 bytes	vponomarev

Comments

Comment #1

dimitriseng commented 27 April 2012 at 19:10

Hi, it looks like this module contains a lot of the features and issues requested for the media_gallery module. What is the plan for this? Are these features going to be implemented as part of the extra module or is this a temporary workaround until those are implemented in the media_gallery module? Thank you very much for the great work.

Comment #2

Ryanp commented 29 April 2012 at 15:48

Hi, maybe I missed it somewhere in the documentation, but it appears that support for private storage is missing. If it is the case that private storage isn't supported, are there plans to introduce this valuable / essential functionality? Thanks for the great module!

Comment #3

vponomarev commented 8 June 2012 at 23:33

Status:

Active

» Needs review

Status	File	Size
new	enable-gallery-collections-1516168-3.patch	843 bytes

Patch to add a Gallery collections feature from MediaGallery. (Related to this patch: #1037002: New feature: Gallery containers)
My first patch, made for personal needs, but hope this will be helpful.

Comment #4

smartinm commented 10 June 2012 at 12:56

Status:

Needs review

» Active

Thanks @vponomarev

I reviewed your patch and related patch and I think I can merge it in and it'll be part of Media Gallery Extra. So I will probably work on that next few days.

Comment #5

vponomarev commented 13 June 2012 at 00:25

Ok, great!

Do you have any plans to add a Media Browser Plus support ?
As i see it could be a really good feature.

Maybe like that: when a gallery folder name is "planned" in media_gallery_directory (when create a gallery node), it creates a "tag" in mediabrowserplus "Media Folders" taxonomy vocabulary, and then loads any media files related to this gallery into that directory.

Trying to do this by myself, but have a little misunderstanding with code.

Comment #6

dimitriseng commented 13 June 2012 at 22:06

@smartinm and @vponomarev
You are doing a great job here trying to add this extra functionality on top of the Media Gallery module. As per my comment in #1, can you please let us know what is the plan for this module? I see that most of the issues that this is trying to address are in the Media Gallery module's queue. Are these features going to be implemented as part of the extra module or is this a temporary workaround until those are implemented in the media_gallery module?

Waiting for the patch as mentioned in #4 :) Thank you very much for the great work.

Comment #7

lsolesen commented 25 June 2012 at 11:28

@smartinm Any progress in this module? Maybe you would like to help maintain the main media_gallery module? #1655160: Offering to help maintain media_gallery.

Comment #8

Bernsch commented 1 July 2012 at 12:58

Yes, you should do it together and combine the two forces Media_Gallery and Media_Gallery_Extra.

In coordination with the Media module.

You doing a good job! Thanks!

Comment #9

smartinm commented 3 July 2012 at 12:38

@lsolesen Sorry for the lack of response, I have holidays now.

I developed this module because Media Gallery development has been inactive for several months. But now that is active again we can join forces and merge features. I am willing to help maintain media_gallery module.