[dolphin] [Bug 464585] Visually mark hardlinks

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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=464585

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--- Comment #2 from lowell.bv at gmail.com ---
Summery:
- Add a visual mark to distinguish a hard-link from a normal file. 

Suggested behaviour: 
- Visually mark any file whose hard-link number is greater than one. 
    - Mark the corner of the file as done with symlinks.
        - Use an icon or the total number of hard-links.
    - Format the file name to visually differentiate it form other files.
        - Use semi-bold to indicate its a hard-link!
        - Optionally use italicized for all link types.

Use-case:
- Allowing the user to easily know if the file is "hard-linked" elsewhere would
empower more intelligent decisions on how to interact with files.
    - A user may want to free space on their disk, deleting a single copy of a
hard-linked file will not accomplish this
    - A user may wrongly believe they have a second (hard-linked) copy of the
file elsewhere and want to delete the current copy
    - A user may want to make a local change, but the file is hard-linked so it
may apply the change globally
    - A user may falsely believe that a file is hard-linked but due to poor
application interaction said link was destroyed
        - text editors with "backup" enabled often replace hard-linked files
with new copy of the text file destroying the hard-link

Conclusion:
Though the use cases may be considered niche, there are benefits in being able
to see at a glance if a file is hard-link or not. This feature would greatly
improve the user output that dolphin provides, enabling the user to take the
correct action. Currently proper hard-link support is practically nonexistent
on file browsers, which makes this feature tedious to use at best, difficult to
use or invisible at worst.

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