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+<article lang="&language;" id="thumbnail">
+<title>thumbnail</title>
+<articleinfo>
+<authorgroup>
+<author>&Carsten.Pfeiffer; &Carsten.Pfeiffer.mail;</author>
+<!-- TRANS:ROLES_OF_TRANSLATORS -->
+</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>