Kallery 1.2.0 review
DownloadThe idea of Kallery came up in my mind at the end of 2001 when I've started to redesign my homepage
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The idea of Kallery came up in my mind at the end of 2001 when I've started to redesign my homepage. I'm an amateur photographer, and have a lot of scanned photos.
Kallery is a pain to build a web gallery for them, even with a HTML editor, not talking about the generated code by such editors. So I tried some gallery generator programs, both for Linux and Windows, but none of them produced a gallery what I liked, and what I could use later on my homepage.
I planned for a long time ago, that it's really the time to start learning something new, and to (permanently) change to the excellent Linux OS, and now that was the right moment for doing this.
And I started to read and tried to understand the (not so difficult) API of the Qt and KDE.
And here is the result, the Kallery - image gallery generator.
Here are some key features of "Kallery":
load a set of images (from different directories)
convert them to another format, resize them and insert copyright text on them
create thumbnails for them
add descriptions for the images
create a gallery HTML file, which contains the thumbnails
this gallery format can have different look and feel (by using templates)
insert navigation buttons, text descriptions near the fullsize images
save the project, so you can use later to regenerate the same or slightly different (eg. descriptions in other languages) image gallery
Requirements:
TrollTech's Qt, version 3.2.x
KDE libraries, version 3.2.x
ImageMagick 6.1.x (later versions might work, but it's not guaranteed)
What's New in This Release:
Bugfixes:
fix "Convert only if larger" behavior
fix the layout of some pages
fix page title when using frames
Improvements:
drop the generated project idea
use .html extension instead of .htm
add more templates
ask less questions from the user
use standard KDE icons everywhere
make it easier to use with the keyboard
update the handbook
reorganized code to ease maintaining
host code on the KDE subversion server
New features:
add support for EXIF tags
add possibility to use the fullsize images from the target path
add new command to the templates
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