runtime/doc/kioslave/thumbnail/index.docbook

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   9 <title>thumbnail</title>
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  12 <author>&Carsten.Pfeiffer; &Carsten.Pfeiffer.mail;</author>
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  16 <para>The thumbnail kioslave is used by &kde; for network transparent
  17 and persistent generation of thumbnails.</para>
  18
  19 <para>The thumbnail kioslave uses plugins to generate the actual
  20 thumbnails.  You can enable viewing of these thumbnails from the
  21 <menuchoice><guimenu>View</guimenu>
  22 <guisubmenu>Preview</guisubmenu></menuchoice> submenu, available in
  23 &konqueror; in file manager mode.</para>
  24
  25 <para>The thumbnail kioslave is not directly useful to a user, but if
  26 you are a developer, you can use it within your own applications to
  27 create file previews.</para>
  28
  29 <para>See the documentation in the sources for more information.  You
  30 will find these at
  31 <filename>$<envar>KDEDIR</envar>/include/kio/thumbcreator.h</filename> or
  32 in the source folder <filename
  33 class="directory">kdebase/runtime/kioslave/thumbnail</filename></para>
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