RFC: KDirechainRebuild (KDirLister, KFileItem and KDirModel)

[Mark Gaiser]

Hi,

I've been asked earlier this year (during the Brno PIM sprint) to put
my new classes that are intended to "replace" (or supplement)
KDirLister, KFileItem and KDirModel in a wiki (or somewhere else) for
the documentation.

Back then the classes where nowhere near usable, but that is now
slowly changing so i think now would be a good time to ask for people
to look at the documentation, look at the WIP! code and look at what
might still be missing (besides an implementation for some of the stub
functions).

Please do understand the goal of these new classes:
- Simplicity
- Low memory footprint
- Fast (equal of faster then the current alternative)
- Tailored towards QML, but not for QML exclusively

Lots is still missing in the classes. The stuff i do plan to add is on
the wiki. If you have a need for something to be added, now is the
time to let me know.

Lastly KDirModel. The models that i describe in the wiki page are
_not_ comparable to KDirModel, but you probably can implement a
KDirModel with my "DirListModel" class.

I'm looking forward to all your feedback.

Best regards,
Mark

Wiki page: http://techbase.kde.org/User:Mark_Gaiser/KDirchainRebuild