minigallery with multiple files: deduplicate and should not start new rows

[Charlie-XIAO]

When using minigallery with multiple files, each file will start a new row. It would be nice if they do not start new rows. Also, it would be nice to remove duplicates if multiple files share a same example. The old behavior can be easily retained by calling minigallery for the files separately.

[lucyleeow]

@story645 I thought we fixed the separate lines issue?

The duplicates is known. I don't know if there is an easy fix because the duplicates could come from backreference, so we'd have to dig into the .example file itself, and then we may have to amend the contents of one if e.g., 2 .example files both include an example @larsoner any ideas?

[story645]

@story645 I thought we fixed the separate lines issue?

I think so? Far as I could tell, it was caused by putting each backref file in its own parent div and now everything goes in one div src but I'm not sure if you all have released that yet.

so we'd have to dig into the .example file itself,

One of the things I've been thinking about is if there's any appetite for maintaining the back references in something like a table or graph? And same w/ list of thumbnails -> I'd want to remove the double parsing in the directive.

[lucyleeow]

Yes good point, sorry I saw 'file' and thought of the new directive but you're right, we haven't released yet. I guess it's time for a new release, WDYT @larsoner ?

One of the things I've been thinking about is if there's any appetite for maintaining the back references in something like a table or graph?

That sounds reasonable to me, just a lot of work.

What do you mean by double parsing? Thanks

[story645]

What do you mean by double parsing?

That the directive builds the thumbnail div when the input is a file/glob pattern, and part of building the thumbnail div is parsing the source file for the title.

[lucyleeow]

Oh yes I remember that. It would be good to store the title with the backreference. Agree, backreferences could definitely be improved and table/graph sound like good options.