Overlay icons in Dolphin and Konqueror

[Olivier Goffart]

On Thursday 17 July 2014 19:55:23 Olivier Goffart wrote:
> On Friday 04 July 2014 10:51:16 Olivier Goffart wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am working with the ownCloud sync client. One of the feature we would
> > like to have is to display overlay icons in the file managers. The icons
> > should display the synchronization state, and more importantly the fact
> > that folders are shared.
> > 
> > As far as I could see, there is no interface in Konqueror or Dolphin to
> > show arbitrary overlay icon.
> > I am aware of KVersionControlPlugin (and we already have such a plugin),
> > but it's interface is too limited, as only some possibilities are
> > available, but we would like to display any kind of icons.
> > 
> > I am then going to implement such interface.
> > Where should it go?
> > in a new KFileOverlayIconPlugin class?
> > Should id go in kio (next KAbstractFileItemActionPlugin)?
> > Or should it go in lib/konq next to KVersionControlPlugin?
> > 
> > For the implementation, I believe I can base myself on the
> > KVersionControlPlugin but returning an QIcon instead of state.
> 
> Thanks Frank and David for your answer.
> 
> I drafted some (working) work in progress. The patch is attached.
> The prototype owncloud plugin is also attached (but the communication
> protocol is not set in stone and is going to be only released in the next
> version of the client)
> So I can have feedback if I'm going in the right direction.
> 
> I guess I'm too late with this to go into KDE SC 4.14?
> So my next question is weather there would be another version of Dolphin
> based on kdelibs, or if I should just go for the frameworks branch.
> 
> (For some reason, the "shared" icon is suddenly a very important feature for
> owncloud, and they would like to have it ASAP for the users now that
> Owncloud 7 (the server) was released)
> 
> > Please reply to all, I am not subscribed.

Hi,

Sorry to insist. I would like to have feedback on the patch to know if i'm 
going in the right direction.
Also, in which branch should it go?

-- 
Olivier