It seems that's the situation. However KImgIO uses needs porting.

David Faure wrote:
> On Friday 06 January 2006 11:33, Szombathelyi György wrote:
>> Any chance to get this in:
>>
>> http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=113620307629326&w=2
> [KImgIO plugins in plugins/imageformat]
> 
> The patch looks good (assuming you tested that Qt loads them ;)
> but does this mean that the *.kimgio files are not needed anymore, nor the code in kio/kio/kimageio* ?
>