When editing images of a gallery (changing order, adding text) it appears that all the images are uploaded again. At least this is what the progress bar after hitting the save button suggests is happening.

This should happen directly on the server I think (no new upload). So it is either a code question or a user interface problem.

Also: When I change the text of one picture the save process seems to consider(I have no real idea of the technical process as such but I try my best with layman's terms-please bear with me) the whole gallery and not only the one picture. When working with huge galleries this could be really annoying.

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wilson98 commented

yes, this is an important issue, thank you.

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padmapriya commented

yes, this is an important issue, thank you.

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dddave commented
Version: 6.x-2.0-alpha1 » 6.x-2.x-dev

Changing version to fit the nature of a task.

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dddave commented

Seems to be fixed in alpha 3.

One thing remains:

The on screen message displayed after editing pictures should be optimized. If I change the position of only two pics this seems to affect all the other pics in the gallery and therefore a long message appears (especially concerning a Gallery with 100s of pics). I think this should be handled with care because it:
1. Looks frightening and is unexpected for non-technical endusers
2. Looks ugly. ;-)

So what would be the best policy for these messages?
Might be the best not to be to precise (naming every pic affected) and use a more general message like "Your changes have been applied" of "Upload of 5 pictures successful".

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dddave commented
Version: 6.x-2.x-dev » 6.x-2.0-alpha7

The message now is displayed without the filename but my personal impression is still that this can be optimzed.

However the new message under the processbar now always states that only one item has to be processed which is true concerning that one gallery is processed but misleading when I changed three captions.

In addition I noticed a new minor issue:

Now this option is called "Manage Images" which I like better than "Edit Images". However the screen after clicking "Manage..." is still called "Edit Images".

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dddave commented
Version: 6.x-2.0-alpha7 » 6.x-2.0-alpha9
Status: Active » Fixed

This seems much, much better now.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.