WPML and Galleries

My client is getting understandably frustrated by this…and so am I.

There are 2 or 3 different galleries on the website – homepage, gallery page and incidentals (including menus creating using galleries)

However. the site is translated into 5 languages. I have had the ongoing issue of the menus not working properly because of galleries/images not showing up in translations wihtout Multiple duplication of media in WPML, so now the site is total bloat, but have got past that now

but the client is wanting to add images to galleries on an ongoing basis and he asks, quite reasonably I think, why he has to do this 5 times for everything…why can all 5 languages not just read the same gallery? it is stupid!

if the solution is to just keep hitting the translate media button every time he wants to add an image somewhere well that is a serious issue with “the system” and it is creating ridiculous bloat with about 20 versions of every picture, it’s really not very good!

I do not know if it’s down to the way enfold handles galleries or the way WPML fails to deal with information across the site, but if I was the client I would be not be impressed with it either

thanks :)