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+<?xml version="1.0" ?>
+<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//KDE//DTD DocBook XML V4.2-Based Variant V1.1//EN" "dtd/kdex.dtd" [
+  <!ENTITY % addindex "IGNORE">
+  <!ENTITY % English "INCLUDE" > <!-- change language only here -->
+]>
+
+<article lang="&language;" id="thumbnail">
+<title>thumbnail</title>
+<articleinfo>
+<authorgroup>
+<author>&Carsten.Pfeiffer; &Carsten.Pfeiffer.mail;</author>
+<!-- TRANS:ROLES_OF_TRANSLATORS -->
+</authorgroup>
+</articleinfo>
+<para>The thumbnail tdeioslave is used by &tde; 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/tdeio/thumbcreator.h</filename> or
+in the source folder <filename
+class="directory">tdebase/tdeioslave/thumbnail</filename></para>
+
+</article>