Nextgen gallery show thickbox/shutter from link instead of image [closed]

I finally did it with jquery.
I replaced all the image thumbs of the gallery with the link text and remove the text for all links except the first:

$(".ngg-galleryoverview").each(function(index) {
    $(this).find(".ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box .ngg-gallery-thumbnail a").html('View photos <span>&#187;</span>');
    $(this).find(".ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box .ngg-gallery-thumbnail a").addClass('small');
    $(this).find(".ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box:gt(0) .ngg-gallery-thumbnail a").html('');
            }); 

With this script i can use the shortcode normally, just [nggallery id=1] and it works for both thickbox and shutter.

Hope this helps someone with the same problem i had 🙂