Re: --no-thumbnails

David, Jonas,

thanks for your time and efforts in extending gift-add-collection to add 
some features. As you've pointed out
there are people like jonas and me who want to strap the gift behind a 
php based system and as such really
appreciate this feature.

I'll probably have a chance to test it on my site on the weekend.
>> need be we can do something like --fake-thumbnail-urls to make thumbnail urls 
>> point to the full images. 
>>
>> My feeling is that GIFT is often used in environment, where the images are not 
>> served to a community, but rather used as a backend to some PHP where the 
>> MRML server itself is not reachable, or not intended to be reached. This 
>> seems to be the case for you, Jonas, and in this case I find it more proper 
>> to suppress the attribute altogether.
>>
>> IF you intend to run the GIFT as MRML server with a reachable and advertised 
>> MRML port, then I would find it useful to use a --fake-thumbnail-urls option 
>> as suggested above, because I am not sure who wrote when which app that 
>> relies on the thumbnail attribute.
>>   
>>     
>
> Please find attached a version of gift-add-collection.pre-pl that
> implements these ideas. There are now options:
>
> --no-thumbnails: prevents thumbnails from being generated, and by
> default causes the thumbnail-url-postfix to be suppressed
> --fake-thumbnails: implies --no-thumbnails w.r.t. thumbnail generation,
> but causes the same URL as in the url-postfix attribute to be used for
> the thumbnail-url-postfix attribute.
>
> Both have been set up so that they can be set in the
> .gift-add-collection file with lines like:
>
> fake-thumbnails="1"
>
> I have tested these using my client, and they work as expected - there
> seems not to be any problems on the server side.
>
> I would be glad if someone using another client could test before I
> commit it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
>
> PS. Jonas, simply using '--fake-thumbnails' should do what you want.
>