<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>