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<author>&Carsten.Pfeiffer; &Carsten.Pfeiffer.mail;</author>
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<para>The thumbnail kioslave is used by &kde; for network transparent
and persistent generation of thumbnails.</para>

<para>The thumbnail kioslave 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 kioslave 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>KDEDIR</envar>/include/kio/thumbcreator.h</filename> or
in the source folder <filename
class="directory">kdebase/kioslave/thumbnail</filename></para>

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