pflau

Yes I know the option of embedding the gallery in a page and that would give me the sort option. But this is not how I use it, I don’t create pages for galleries. I attach all my galleries to a gallery group which is set up as a custom link in a menu item. So no page is ever created for a gallery or gallery group.
I did find out if I change the Order by option in Global Settings it would change the sort method in a gallery, but then all other sort methods are broken.
The main issue as I see it now is the option of overriding global gallery option is only available when the gallery is embedded in a page, and having to create a page for every gallery negates the advantage of the plug-in.