[dewey]

That's not really "photo organizing / sharing", that's just a directory listing.

What you want from a photo specific software is things like thumbnails, exif info, powerful search, maybe indexing the content of the pictures (Searching for "dog") etc.

[superkuh]

Ah, in that case after the wife has looked at photos, named their file names accordingly and put them in the dir she can run http://xome.net/projects/jigl/ or any other .html photo gallery generator. It'll show thumbnails, exif info, and she can press ctrl-f to search in the browser.

I guess you want the gallery generation to be automagic though. Might be some work but you could whip up a cron shell script to see if any sub-dir in ~/www/photos/ has files and doesn't have an index.html and have it autogenerate them.

As I write this I do realize it's starting to get pretty complex. Almost like you'd wish for an all-in-one solution like you'd asked. But I still think this method would be better long term though.

[Sakos]

I feel like this is the kind of thing where an amalgation of Linux tools hacked together and based on this would offer a significantly better solution than most self-hosted media serving software I've seen.

[dewey]

If I'd have to choose I'd take a kinda-good off the shelf solution over a "Linux tools hacked together" solution any day.

Especially because I don't want to maintain something important like a photo collection forever. Having other people in the family being able to use it by just installing some mobile app off the app store is also a big plus.

[Sakos]

Of course, so would I. But I haven't found any kinda-good off the shelf solution. They're all sorta bad in their own way. Plex and Jellyfin constantly frustrate me with the bizarre unfixable issues I encounter.