HTML Gallery tool is back...

[Gilles Caulier]

Ha, i forget to said that all digiKam 5.6.0 pre version bundle include
this tool now :

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BzeiVr-byqt5Y0tIRWVWelRJenM

Gilles Caulier

2017-05-08 14:41 GMT+02:00 Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>:
> Hi all,
>
> I just completed the port to Qt5 of old HTML Export tool to digiKam
> core. It's now named HTML gallery.
>
> To remember the goal of this tool, It able to make a static HTML web
> site depending of contents selected from digiKam libraries. Dmitri
> blog explain well how to use it :
>
> https://scribblesandsnaps.com/2011/04/26/generate-html-photo-galleries-with-digikam/
>
> So what's new in this tool :
>
> 1/ it's now in digiKam core and not shared. Why ? because the only way
> to improve this tool is to use digiKam API directly. Also the
> maintainer disappear since more than 6 years now. So i take the code
> and ported, polished, fixed , improved the implementation as i want to
> see it. This take one week with the help of Maik.
>
> 2/ The tool will be available in Showfoto too (it's not yet done). I
> written a small interface to permit to use this tool without to depend
> of digiKam database. This interface is not shared with the rest of the
> world.
>
> 3/ It's now able to use current selection of images from digiKam icon
> view instead to use albums selection. Both mode are available when you
> start the wizard dialog.
>
> 4/ The HTML gallery is themable and new theme was imported in the
> tool. Especially the Elegant theme is just wonderful. It use
> Javascript in background and it's my preferred.
>
> 5/ As we now depend of digiKam core, we can use all the API available
> as well. Especially, it's planed to support Video files through the
> new HTML5 API.
>
> If you want to see a preview of this tool in action, look in this Flickr album :
>
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/digikam/albums/72157681648466300
>
> The tool use HTML+CSS and can use Javascript in background. You, the
> end users can write new theme is you have some skill in web
> technologies.
>
> There is a HOWTO describing how to process a new theme creation :
>
> https://cgit.kde.org/digikam.git/tree/data/htmlgallery/themes/THEME_HOWTO
>
> If something is not clear or is missing, please let's me hear.
>
> The current theme list is just near the HOWTO file :
>
> https://cgit.kde.org/digikam.git/tree/data/htmlgallery/themes
>
> I recommend to take a look to "simple" theme, one of easy to
> understand. The "elegant" theme is more complex.
>
> I call also through this message about people who have downloaded or
> archived one old theme that i cannot restore from the web, as kde-look
> web site is down :
>
> "vanilla" theme by Wojciech Jarosz :
>
> https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20150911014820/http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Vanilla+theme+for+DigiKam%2BKipi+HTML+Export?content=63079
>
> Voilà, i hope that you will enjoy with this tool.
>
> My best
>
> Gilles Caulier