1 <article lang="&language;" id="thumbnail">
2 <title>thumbnail</title>
5 <author>&Carsten.Pfeiffer; &Carsten.Pfeiffer.mail;</author>
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9 <para>The thumbnail kioslave is used by &kde; for network transparent
10 and persistent generation of thumbnails.</para>
12 <para>The thumbnail kioslave uses plugins to generate the actual
13 thumbnails. You can enable viewing of these thumbnails from the
14 <menuchoice><guimenu>View</guimenu>
15 <guisubmenu>Preview</guisubmenu></menuchoice> submenu, available in
16 &konqueror; in file manager mode.</para>
18 <para>The thumbnail kioslave is not directly useful to a user, but if
19 you are a developer, you can use it within your own applications to
20 create file previews.</para>
22 <para>See the documentation in the sources for more information. You
24 <filename>$<envar>KDEDIR</envar>/include/kio/thumbcreator.h</filename> or
25 in the source folder <filename
26 class="directory">kdebase/kioslave/thumbnail</filename></para>