I think it’s a perfectly good question. On one of my sites I am seeing that whenever I use the flash uploader, which I have used many times, the default “link” created for someone who clicks on the image goes to an individual photo of the image. Sometimes this shows up as just the image with no html, but depending on what folder the image is held in (automatically without my creating this path), it sometimes shows up within a gallery feature that I do not use. This is not critical, however, there is a button on the bottom of the gallery that says “previous” or “next” image. It’s a concern that the gallery is then going to be displaying orphan images that I never intended to be part of the site. For example, a Photoshopped image, uploaded, noticed a misspelling on some text, corrected, re-uploaded. Now the “mistake” image is right in there with the rest in the gallery, even though it was replaced for the purposes of what I intend to be displayed to website visitors.
In addition, just as Amyunus has said, I have uploaded my header logo more than a dozen times, nudging the content in Photoshop and re-uploading. I notice that in the “Header” section of the admin interface the system saves all of these logos, as if I might want to select one of them in the future. But what I am suggesting is that I don’t want them there, and I won’t want to select them in the future.
It would be nice if there was a plug-in that simply pulled a list of orphan images, that are not actually included in any website pages, so I could delete most of them. For them to be included in galleries that a user will inevitably stumble upon is a bad thing.
And I do agree that if a developer writes a plug-in, it should be uploaded into the www.remarpro.com “directory” or I wouldn’t trust it either.
Any help is appreciated.