This is a pretty vague plan that I've had at the back of my mind that I'd like to implement one day -- thought I might as well share it to see what everyone else thinks.

Image attach could have different plug-ins called image pickers. This would determine how you choose images to attach.
For example:
- images from a particular gallery
- images from a taxonomy term
- images owned by the current user
- images from a view
- the system to upload a new image could be reimplemented as another picker (so you'd need to be able to specify more than one picker to be active)

Some questions to ponder:
- are pickers data only or themed too? Nicer ways to pick images than a drop-down would be good too (eg filmstrip of images). So this is possibly a two-layer thing.
- should these be implemented as modules, or should some be built in as part of image.attach (which a hook for third-party modules perhaps?)
- should pickers be set site-wide, or per-content-type?
- need to figure out a settings storage schema

What does everyone else think?

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sun
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Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Sorry, this issue is way too old to have a chance to get fixed. Feel free to re-open this issue if you want to supply a working patch.