I’ve grown somewhat tired of ‘imageindex’. It doesn’t do what I want without modifying my ~/.imageindexrc file each time, which is annoying. I modified it to permit reading in a separate configuration, but the perl code is spaghetti and I don’t like the structure of the index file (tables… ugh!). I also want output that fits into my site’s style.
There are options other than imageindex, but I haven’t found any that work exactly as I’d like. It’s particularly important that I be able to easily bring in galleries from my old web site, and I can’t do that with Gallery3 or any of the freely available generators I’ve found while also fitting into my site’s style.
I’m almost done with a replacement written in C++, using the GraphicsMagick library. It’s smart enough to avoid unnecessary image regeneration, and automatically recurses into subdirectories to generate ‘medium’ images, thumbnails and montages. It also generates an index.php with all of the thumbnails and subdirectory montages as links. I need to decide how I want to display the medium images (via a slide file or via javascript) and how I want to link to the full-size image from the medium image.
