Features

Galleries, albums, pictures

With Lasco, you can set up any number of galleries. Each gallery is independent and may be managed by different users. The manager of a gallery may add albums. Albums may contain pictures, video and/or sound recordings. Items may have meta data: title, description, date and time. That is all. Only the title and the descriptin can be changed through a web interface. Extra picture metadata (camera model, exposure time, focal length, etc.) are not stored or shown anywhere in Lasco (although this could be added easily).

Access

Each gallery has a list of administrators. Each album has a list of viewers (that include administrators of the corresponding gallery). Users’ rights can be granted and revoked through the command-line interface.

Storage

Pictures are stored on the file system. Only one version (size) of a picture is needed. Lasco takes care of generating thumbnails of each picture when requested (and store them in a cache if you wish). Additional data is stored in a relational database.

Views

There are three views:

  • an album view that lists 8 thumbnails (or a different number depending on the configuration);
  • a picture view that shows a single picture resized to fit on a regular screen (that is, the screen of a computer, not the screen of a tablet or a phone);
  • the picture itself in its original size.

Misc

The user interface is available in English and French (auto-detection of the user’s preferred language, possibly overriden by the user in the application) and comes with two themes (black or white background). Several access keys are implemented to facilitate the navigation in an album.