Here are the instructions (beta). Feedback is appreciated.

Step 1 - Install

Download the ibao theme. Unzip it to the gallery themes directory (e.g. /usr/shared/gallery2/themes/ibao). Go to [Site Admin -> Themes] Install and activate the ibao theme then set ibao as the default theme for the gallery.

Step 2 - Configure

Here are my configurations for [Site Admin -> Themes -> Ibao]:

Number of items to show per page 	= 15
Blocks to show on album pages
- Album quick links (Dropdown)
- Item actions
- Show comments Blocks to show on photo pages
Blocks to show on photo pages
- Item actions
- EXIF/IPTC photo info
- Show comments
Width of page content in pixels 	= This is ignored, the width is set to 80% of the window width in the css.

Step 3 - Patch ImageMagick for panomaras

In order allow panorama thumbnails to stretch out and breath we need to patch the imagemagick module. Modify the following file modules/imagemagick/classes/ImageMagickToolkit.class

Change this:

if ($width > $parameters[0] || $height > $parameters[0]) {
$this->_addResizeParam($transform, $parameters[0]);
list ($width, $height) =   GalleryUtilities::scaleDimensionsToFit($width, $height, $parameters[0]);
}

To this:

if ($width > $parameters[0] || $height > $parameters[0]) {
if ( $width > $height ) { /* fixed height for pan photos*/
$this->_addResizeParam($transform, $parameters[0]*6, $parameters[0]*0.75);
list ($width, $height) =       GalleryUtilities::scaleDimensionsToFit($width, $height, $parameters[0]*6, $parameters[0]*0.75);
}else{
$this->_addResizeParam($transform, $parameters[0]);
list ($width, $height) =      GalleryUtilities::scaleDimensionsToFit($width, $height, $parameters[0]);
}
}

We then tell gallery2 to use the ImageMagick module over other toolkits by moving ImageMagick all the way up in [Site Admin -> Toolkit Priority].

Step 4 - Setting the look for the front page

The ibao theme uses a special look of alternating panoramas for the top page of the gallery. You can select anything from a sub-album as the highlight. I wanted however something that’s not part of the gallery so I manually edited some panoramas to 4×1 ratio and put it in a private album under each top level album. I then select a panorama from each album as the highlight on the top page. I made this album private so that only the administrator can see it.

I set the thumbnail size to 180 for the top album and 200 for the sub albums under [Edit Album -> Album].

You may have noticed that there is a sidebar on the top page. In it is a manual link to the Google Map module which you need to download and install separately. I also added more blocks in [Edit Album -> Theme -> Blocks to show on album pages] the following: Search Box, Image Block, and Shopping Cart Info.

Hidden gems/hacks

• There is a hidden hack for the album titled “Panoramas”. The theme will use a different style such that the highlights can be shown at full length rather than been shown as cropped if it were in a normal album.
• If you have entered a summary for an image it will be displayed in the album view though it won’t look particularly pretty.
• In the last block of ibao/template/theme.tpl there is code for Google Analytics. If you use Analytics uncomment those two lines and insert your account number.

When all else fails, here’s the System Information of my gallery installation:

Gallery version = 2.1.1 core 1.1.0.1
PHP version = 4.3.10-16 apache2handler
Webserver = Apache/2.0.54 (Debian GNU/Linux) mod_auth_pgsql/2.0.2b1 DAV/2 mod_jk2/2.0.4 mod_python/3.1.3 Python/2.3.5 PHP/4.3.10-16 mod_ssl/2.0.54 OpenSSL/0.9.7e
Database = mysqlt 4.0.24_Debian-10sarge2-log, lock.system=flock
Toolkits = Exif, ArchiveUpload, Dcraw, Ffmpeg, NetPBM, Gd, ImageMagick
Acceleration = none, none
Operating system = Linux plum 2.6.12-1-k7 #1 Tue Sep 27 13:22:07 JST 2005 i686
Default theme = ibao
Locale = en_US
Browser = Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060330 Firefox/1.5.0.2

Have fun, good luck and please leave your feedback!

i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc: @EVO_LDFLAGS@: No such file or directory
i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc: @EVO_LIBS@: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [libevolution2_sync.la] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/multisync-0.83_pre20050414-r3/work/multisync/plugins/evolution2_sync/src’
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/multisync-0.83_pre20050414-r3/work/multisync/plugins/evolution2_sync’
make: *** [all] Error 2

!!! ERROR: app-pda/multisync-0.83_pre20050414-r3 failed.

I found tips for the solution in this German thread. Here are the steps to get it compiling:

First you start emerging multisync but suspend it with Control-z right after the source is unpacked, i.e.,

$ emerge multisync
...
unpacked source
ctrl ^z

You then go to where the source is unpacked and modify Makefile.am to take out the EVO flags, i.e.,

$ cd /var/tmp/portage/multisync-0.83_pre20050414-r3/work/multisync/plugins/evolution2_sync/src
$ edit Makefile.am and remove  @EVO_LDFLAGS@ and @EVO_LIBS@ towards the bottom

Continue with the emerge, i.e.,

$ fg

It should then complete gracefully

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<%= request.getAttribute("bar") %> == ${requestScope.bar}
<%= session.getAttribute("frotz") %> == ${sessionScope.frotz}
<%= application.getAttribute("filfre") %> == ${applicationScope.filfre}

After this experience I decided to try out Akismet which is the default spam filter for Wordpress 2.0. It needs an API key to activate. To obtain the API one needs to sign up at wordpress.com not to be confused with wordpress.org. After you get an account there, log in, go to profiles and you will find a key at the top.

To get around it I specified the “Embedded Path prefix” in the gallery2 plugin options to be “gallery”, so that links to gallery would be in the form of http://blog.ibao.net/gallery/notes/path/under/gallery. I then redirect everything under gallery/notes/ on blog.ibao.net to gallery.ibao.net in the .htaccess file, i.e.,

redirectMatch 301 ^/gallery/notes/(.*) http://gallery.ibao.net/$1

Now it should work.

As a reference here are my full embedded paths configuration:

Relative Gallery2 Path=      ../../gallery/
Embed Gallery2 Page Name=    wp-gallery2.php
Path from web document root= /notes/
Gallery Error Redirect=      http://blog.ibao.net/notes/index.php
Document Root Path=          /var/www/ibao.net/blog
Embedded Path prefix=        gallery

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://del.icio.us/feeds/js/anniec?count=10;title=my%20del.icio.us"></script>
<noscript><a href="http://del.icio.us/anniec">my del.icio.us</a></noscript>

and tags:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://del.icio.us/feeds/js/tags/anniec?count=20;size=12-35;color=66ff33-006633;title=my%20del.icio.us%20tags"></script>

I doubt the default browser even has cookies support so I installed Opera Mini which is a J2ME browser. Loaded it, complained about the lack of encryption and displayed garbled output for the login page… hum. I tried going to the normal gmail page (http://www.gmail.com) and was able to login from there. I then opened http://m.gmail.com and voila! I was in.

The main page displayed what is in your inbox, links to compose, contacts, more views and a search box. When you click on a message thread it takes you to the conversation view like in Gmail and you can click on each conversation to see the full email. The contacts view shows links to the people whom you most frequently email and a search box to other contacts. When there is a number on the page you can select it and it would ask if you would like to call this number. Nifty.

Apart from the problematic initial setup, I’m quite happy with this service. Through Gmail’s search oriented design I could have access to all my emails and contacts with minimal amount of data transfer (though this depends on your inbox being relatively clean). The interface is clean and efficient. This could come in quite handy :).

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>                               }
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