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<article lang="&language;" id="thumbnail">
<title>thumbnail</title>
<articleinfo>
<authorgroup>
<author>&Carsten.Pfeiffer; &Carsten.Pfeiffer.mail;</author>
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<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>