More control on thumbnails

[DBinaghi]

Two suggestions concerning thmbnails:

1. in collections/browse and items/browse: I’d add a config option to move thumbnails to left or right;
2. in collections/browse and items/browse: I'd add a config option to hide/show thumbnails, or even an extra toggle button to show a list more compacted without the thumbnail

[kimisgold]

I'm a little particular about having thumbnails on the left for the ragged layout that happens when an item has no media.

The config option to hide/show thumbnails sounds good though. I've added an icon to indicate attached media when thumbnails are toggled off.

[DBinaghi]

I see your point, Kim. Maybe the fallback image could be used when no picture is available, what do you think?

[kimisgold]

Using a fallback image when there is no media present could confuse users. I've thought about setting aside blank space for consistency, but this would be a problem for sites that use very little media. For example, there could be whole pages where no image is present. Those instances could choose to hide thumbnails with the new setting, but that could be unintuitive for sites that don't use media at all. I haven't figured out a solution I like yet, but I'm open to other ideas.

[DBinaghi]

I was thinking of a "no image available" fallback image. Graphical, possibly, so that there's no problem for other languages.
Pick your favourite:

[DBinaghi]

Additionally: if thumbnails are removed, maybe you could implement some extra views (I find very useful some the ones developed by George Soules - see https://github.com/gsoules/AvantSearch, Search Results Views)... just an idea.