Hello friends. Long story short, I really like Shotwell... but in this day and age, we store everything on a home server. Everything is pretty well automated and functions nicely, as we utilize Clementine's Subsonic internet plugin to stream music from the server over Subsonic, and music, pictures, and videos are served to the HTPC running Ubuntu 14.04/XBMC via SMB (Samba). Thing is, I feel like I could do a better job with serving up pictures if any system on the LAN wants to view them. Of course, opening the file manager yields a one-click way to auto mount the Samba link to pull up pictures on the server, but I can't help but to think there's a better way to 'serve' them than through the file manager. One thought is to just set up NFS and have it auto link to the pictures directory on the server and let Shotwell do its job, but I have some concerns about ~5 systems auto linking up to Shotwell like that. Maybe it'll work, but perhaps there's a reason I'm hesitant about it.
I got to thinking that with all of the magical softwares on the internets that perhaps something is out there that I'm missing. Maybe there's some sort of application I can install that'll tap into my existing Apache set up on the server where I can say, hey, pictures are in /media/storage/pictures, and boom - I'm presented with a sweet web frontend where I can browse through all of the pictures with a slick web UI. Maybe it doesn't exist, but it can't hurt to ask.
I do have ownCloud running on the server, and ownCloud has a really nice photo gallery. I've considered going that route, but I'm not too sure I can do that while retaining the capability to pull them up over Samba for the HTPC. I certainly don't have the space (nor do I care to even entertain this idea) of having the pictures in two locations, i.e. ownCloud data + its own folder hosted via Samba.
With that said, here I am blind firing. Anybody got any suggestions?
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