<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 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> </article>