fulo wrote:Maybe, to decrease the server load, it would be an option to assign to an uploaded image a special flag like "timeline".
For the index page, there might be a new layout style, for example named "timeline" that shows only all the images with this certain flag/tag/whatnameever…
It's not a bad idea, although it would require us to store a list of "timeline" photos in database or just a JSON file.
I think however this could easily be part of a future "query" gallery plugin that gets images from multiple folders. It will only be slow if you have hundreds of folders and thousands of images ... but even then, it will only be slow on first page-load, as the page will become cached on following requests. Furthermore, a "query" plugin will allow more cool stuff, like creating a gallery page that for example shows all images with "landscape" (in name, title, description or tag). Kinda like a pre-defined "search" for a page, that can search images from all folders based on dates, size, and text.
I can't tell you when this will be a feature, but it's definitely worth implementing.