#6: Improve photo album UI

Contents

1. Motivation
2. Proposal
3. Implementation
4. Deliverables

Proposed by

Lukas Zdych

Seconded by

Christian 'Tiran' Heimes

Proposal type

User interface

Assigned to release

• AT Content Types 1.0

Repository branch

plip06-album-view

State

in-progress

Motivation

ATCT needs to improve UI for photo album folders.

Proposal

• Let user to choose size of images in which he wants to view them. The same functionality which offers CMFPhoto product but nicer ;).
• Show count of images and sub-albums under album thumbnail in album view.
• Show author of image above image in album photo view.
• Show EXIF informations like date of shooting.
• Provide UI in image view for selecting the default size view of an image. The data should be stored in the session or in a cookie.

Implementation

• Create atct_album_view.pt for viewing the folder as album using atctGetAlbumContent
• Create atctGetAlbumContent.py script with following return value: {folders : listOfBrains, images : listOfBrains, others : listOfBrains, folder_count : {folder_id : count } }
  • atct_album_view should use batching over folders + images
  • the return value of atctGetAlbumContent has changed
  • others should only be listed in the first page of the album batch. Don't show others but link to folder contents if more than X items are in others
  • navigation inside atct_album_image_view shouldn't use batch but several small images at the bottom like http://www.flickr.com/photos/77941960@N00/sets/256772/show/ . It's fancy and useful.
• Create atct_album_image_view.pt template for viewing the image inside a folder. Note that this template will be called with the image as context
• Create a script atctGetImageInAlbum.py that returns the necessary data to batch the image in the folder
• Create actions to rotate/mirror the image + add action icons for them. Note to (me) Tiran: Kick Vidar's ass to make him send me the promised icons
• Create a template for batch editing an album. It should allow deletion, title+description editing and rotation/mirroring of each image

All scripts must be catalog based!

Notes:

Deliverables

• New templates + scripts for views and edits
• i18n
• registration of the new views
• Unit tests for scripts and template tests
• Documentation of new photoalbum features