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<article lang="&language;" id="thumbnail">
<title
>thumbnail</title>
<articleinfo>
<authorgroup>
<author
>&Carsten.Pfeiffer; &Carsten.Pfeiffer.mail;</author>
<othercredit role="translator"
><firstname
>Malcolm</firstname
><surname
>Hunter</surname
><affiliation
><address
><email
>malcolm.hunter@gmx.co.uk</email
></address
></affiliation
><contrib
>Conversion to British English</contrib
></othercredit
> 
</authorgroup>
</articleinfo>
<para
>The thumbnail tdeioslave is used by &kde; for network transparent and persistent generation of thumbnails.</para>

<para
>The thumbnail tdeioslave uses plugins to generate the actual thumbnails. You can enable viewing of these thumbnails from the <menuchoice
><guimenu
>View</guimenu
> <guisubmenu
>Preview</guisubmenu
></menuchoice
> submenu, available in &konqueror; in file manager mode.</para>

<para
>The thumbnail tdeioslave is not directly useful to a user, but if you are a developer, you can use it within your own applications to create file previews.</para>

<para
>See the documentation in the sources for more information. You will find these at <filename
>$<envar
>TDEDIR</envar
>/include/kio/thumbcreator.h</filename
> or in the source folder <filename class="directory"
>tdebase/tdeioslave/thumbnail</filename
></para>

</article>