After messing with Gallery for a while, I came to the conclusion that it was painfully slow and the interface was counter-intuitive at best.

CopperMine is another photo gallery which I’ve decided I like much better. It is WAY faster than Gallery and the Interface is a lot more intuitive to me.

Part of the issue I think is these two programs really target different audiences, Gallery appears to be designed for someone who wants to sell images, thus it has a shopping cart and other E-comemrce facilities, whereas CopperMine seems to be geared much more to displaying photographs which was my intent.

I’ll post a link here once I get it all configured and populated with images.