If you are familiar with Joomla, you might have heard of Expose. Well, if you would like to use it out-of-the-box, it will be great. Trouble is, sometimes you just need to do some touch-ups to fit into your Joomla template. And then you get into problems. Suddenly, you come face to face with a monstrous configuration file with no idea of where to start.
Well, being really desperate, I slowly dissected the file and got the following 8 sections, with 2 no idea sections.
- Gallery
- Main Panel
- Image
- Image Strip
- Image Info
- Album List
- Album Info
- Image Description
- To help with future skinning, I will now proceed to label the different pages with the different segments. First, it will be the front page.
Front Page
From what I can see, the whole component is controlled by Gallery configuration. From the front page, there is also a segment that is configured by Image Album List.
Image Strip
After clicking on an album, you will enter the image strip screen. Here the configuration will be controlled by Image Strip.
Image Page
A selection of an image on the image strip page will bring you to a new page which has 2 components, Image Info and Image.
Hmm.. come to think about it… the naming is quite obvious… but somehow.. when you are staring at a whole chunk of xml… the feeling can be quite intimidating. 
Also, if you are a hard-core guy and bent on changing the icons, you can actually recompile the flash files:
- artwork.swf
- fonts.swf
I downloaded the source files from the expose site.. but just in case the site got busted, here are the source files.
Okay that’s all for now.. and really sorry for boring the Non-Joomla readers…