kfile plugins

[Rolf Magnus]

On Wednesday 24 April 2002 18:11, Carsten Pfeiffer wrote:

> it depends -- if e.g. the bmp format supports more metadata than QImage
> could extract, then I'm all for a separate plugin. However, if there /is/
> no other metadata than e.g. depth and resolution, then I don't see the
> point of creating one plugin for every such format, where QImage could be
> used to read them all.

Can QImageIO read that info from images without reading and decompressing the 
whole image data?