From kfm-devel  Fri Jul 04 08:51:16 2014
From: Olivier Goffart <olivier () woboq ! com>
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2014 08:51:16 +0000
To: kfm-devel
Subject: Overlay icons in Dolphin and Konqueror
Message-Id: <1478027.Sc7jfXdaWj () finn>
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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.

Please reply to all, I am not subscribed.

Regards,
-- 
Olivier