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<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> 
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<para>The thumbnail tdeioslave is used by &kde; 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>

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