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From: Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Choice of Photo gallery tools
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:55:35
Message-Id: 87eikir3v6.fsf@newsguy.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Choice of Photo gallery tools by Mick
1 Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> writes:
2
3 > On Thursday 18 February 2010 01:35:12 Iain Buchanan wrote:
4 >> On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 17:14 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
5 >> > I wondered if anyone here can speak on the various photo and
6 >> > gallery generating tools available on linux.
7 >> >
8 >> > I have photos on smugmug.com and wondered if there is do it
9 >> > yourself tools that come anywhere close the sophisticated
10 >> > handling they do.
11 >>
12 >> never tried smugmug and don't know what your requirements are, but I
13 >> push JAlbum. You can create some pretty good looking albums and run
14 >> them from CD / HD / webserver (I especially like the fact that you don't
15 >> need a webserver). It can synchronise to your website. There are a
16 >> plethora of options and free + commercial skins, plus plug-ins to let
17 >> you sell them online.
18 >>
19 >> Unfortunately it's just the generation tool, you have to find your own
20 >> hosting.
21 >
22 > A really low-tech solution that was more than enough for me was the
23 > ability of Konqueror 3.x to generate an html page with thumbnails
24 > and link it to the folder with all your chosen photos. With KDE4 I
25 > had to install kim4 for editing my pics and creating an html
26 > gallery.
27
28 That does sound close to what I need, but it involves jacking around
29 with KDE, something I swore off of a while back.

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