[ Note for fellow searchers: The topic here is the image/photo Gallery software available on portage as: www-apps/gallery ]
"J. Roeleveld" <jo...@antarean.org> writes: > I use Gallery myself for my picture collection and this can be configured > easily. > As in, you can allow users access to all versions or just the 'resized' > versions. > This can be done through groups or specific users. > > I usually only allow people to access the resized versions. It does support > resizing on-the-fly, but only to the sizes you actually configured for that > particular photo/album/... > > the on-the-fly bit is only done if the requested size doesn't exist yet, eg. > it will only do it once (unless you clear the derivatives folder ;) ) Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> writes: > On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:53:15 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> > If you want to host it yourself, there's Gallery. It too has plenty of >> > options and can take a little tweaking to get it just as you want. >> >> Neil, do you know off hand if gallery offers user/viewer the ability >> to download original (full res) images? Or does it generate the php >> versions but leave the originals out of what is viewed? > > It's your choice, you can allow specified resolution or full size too. I > only allow full size to logged in users, to stop web spiders eating up > all my bandwidth by crawling over the original image links. Great info fellas... thanks, I reposted it here for the ease of any searchers who may stumble on it.
