<?xml version="1.0" ?> <!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//KDE//DTD DocBook XML V4.2-Based Variant V1.1//EN" "dtd/kdex.dtd" [ <!ENTITY % addindex "IGNORE"> <!ENTITY % English "INCLUDE" > <!-- change language only here --> ]> <article lang="&language;" id="thumbnail"> <title>thumbnail</title> <articleinfo> <authorgroup> <author>&Carsten.Pfeiffer;</author> <author>&tde-authors;</author> <!-- TRANS:ROLES_OF_TRANSLATORS --> </authorgroup> <releaseinfo>&tde-release-version;</releaseinfo> <date>Reviewed: &tde-release-date;</date> <copyright> <year>2010</year> <holder>&Carsten.Pfeiffer;</holder> </copyright> <copyright> <year>&tde-copyright-date;</year> <holder>&tde-team;</holder> </copyright> <abstract> <para> This handbook describes the thumbnail protocol. </para> </abstract> <keywordset> <keyword>TDE</keyword> <keyword>thumbnail</keyword> <keyword>protocol</keyword> </keywordset> </articleinfo> <para>The thumbnail tdeioslave is used by &tde; 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> </article>