hi,

i'm wondering which slideshow plugin i should use. i would prefer the one which will be supported for the longest time.
it just needs to be able to display the image of an album in a carousel-style, i.e. a big image and a list of thumbnails next to it. bonus points for being able to handle videos.

Of the official ones use slideshow2 then.

it just needs to be able to display the image of an album in a carousel-style, i.e. a big image and a list of thumbnails next to it. bonus points for being able to handle videos.

Sorry, none of the official plugins do this. The cycle2 script slideshow2 uses can be used to make connected slideshow with thumbs as a navigation. But that means coding work for you:
http://jquery.malsup.com/cycle2/demo/caro-pager.php

Videos are really generally problematic within slideshows mainly because of player scripts themselves. Scripts called within scripts is not always that easy and CSS as well.

Generally you can adapt almost every slider script out there to use with Zenphoto.

Edit:
I think the zpBase theme has an option for such an album slider built in

thanks for the quick reply.
well, looks like i have a little bit of coding to do then. can you recommend any of the thousand jquery-slideshows out there?
there are several other things which would be really nice to have:

[list]
[*]touch/swipe support
[*]responsive
[*]graceful fallback in case js is disabled
[*]easy to maintain / update
[*]lightweight
[/list]

I personally use primarily these nowdays (as you said loads of similar one out there…):
- http://jquery.malsup.com/cycle2/ (used by our slideshow2 plugin, slideshow uses the precedessor)
- http://bxslider.com (used by the plugin of similar name)
- http://kenwheeler.github.io/slick/ (not used by anything official but I currently close to my favorite)

All support swipe/touch support and responsive. But I don't think that any of it really has a non js fallback.

i'll take a closer look into these, thx a lot!