Fighting with G2Image

Okay, it’s not really fighting, but if feels that way. I misunderstood the instructions for setting up g2image and put the plugin under modules/tinymce/plugins because that directory already existed and had something in it, namely drupalbreak. Oops, that’s not where it is supposed to go, it has to go under modules/tinymce/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins. The clue came after I finally modified plugin_reg.php and got a log message that showed where it was looking.

So now g2image is working. Next I have to create some astronomy galleries and make them publicly accessible. Then I have to figure out how to convince Gallery2 to not make square images by padding them with a particular color. I’d really like it to just scale the image and put it into a square table slot. Hmmm, do I have time to write a gallery theme?

Oh, and I almost forgot—it doesn’t seem to be possible to insert anything except a thumbnail from gallery into Drupal.