ksquirrel-libs can be described in following terms:

- ksquirrel-libs is a set of codecs for the browser of images KSquirrel.
- format of libraries is very simple, so you can write the codec necessary to you.
- you can use ksquirrel-libs in your program - simply realize the mechanism, allowing to manipulate a set of such libraries (like SQ_LibraryHandler class in KSquirrel).
- each codec has a strictly defined set of functions which provide the interface of library.
- from the version 0.6.0-pre1 codecs are written on C++.
- from the point of view of C++ all codecs absolutely identical - they differ only with contents of methods.