Is it possible to see the inode info of files within Dolphin. In essence it would be the equivalent of using ls -lsai which shows a list of all files including the inode# and inode count.
Those hardly useful and very technical. So we (dolphin maintainers) would not be keen to add those. Ratios usage/code-added and usage/ui-elements-added would be very very low.
What is your use-case for inode id and inode count ?
I would like to have it appear as an optional column to check if a file exists in more than one place or if it’s an only copy. It is also very handy in incremental backups to know which files are original and which ones are modified copies in the incremental process.
It’s also can indicate how many ‘copies’ this file exists in vi the hardlinks reference.Since Linux is also used more and more for development it would be an additional handy tool to have then having to drop into command line.
The way I pictured it is optionally showing columns for the inode id and the count. Similar to Link Destination
We already had a MR regarding this:
This wasn’t finished by the contributor.
Quoting from there:
… an emblem icon drawn on hardlinks icons like we have for symlinks…
Actually, a little overlay with hardlinks count may be better than the additional column!
The direction I would favor the feature to be implemented as.
A optional column is restricted to details view and can be forgotten, not an icon overlay.
I won’t dvelve into this myself (aside from reviewing) hardlink are still rarely AFAICT.
Report the bug or implement it (since apparently you are a developer 
) or this will be forgotten again.
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