Gallery2 is a Nightmare
Have to document my opinion of Gallery2: Truly a pain in the butt and a nightmare to use and configure.
1. Way too bulky. Huge installation files.
2. Installation is very lengthy and a pain to configure (not ideal for newbie web devs).
3. Proprietary modules that were installed by the system cannot be deleted off your server unless you have root permission and shell access. (created by apache)
4. Album creation and configuration options are way too extensive for end users. I consider myself an advanced computer user and even I found it boggling, tedious, confusing, and bulky. And we're expecting our site members to use this??
5. Integration with Drupal is very very confusing and very limited. We now have separate comments, rating systems and it's basically too 'stand-alone' for my tastes.
Probably many pros to balance the cons, but since I couldn't get the albums working after an hour, I gave up.
Perhaps you should post this
Perhaps you should post this on The Gallery website rather than Drupal's.
I'm sure the developers over there would like some feedback to help them improve their software.
For balance
I agree with many of this posters comments. But I had G2 up and running inside Druapl in less than 30 minutes on my first go, and my users (mostly non techincal) could easily get to grips with using it; which is the main thing.
If you just want basic functions, it is overkill. However, for a community site if you a Gallery per user, there is no alternative at the moment.
Persevere, it does work and is worth it - if you're expecting a lot of image content to be posted then it's worthwile looking into.
Gareth
sorry, you're right, i'll
sorry, you're right, i'll post this on the gallery2 site