Don't include `iconOverlays` in rolesData if it is empty

If this role isn't in the model yet, it would be `QVariant::Invalid`
which is obviously a distinct type from an empty string list.

This means `KFileItemModel::setData` treats them non-equal and
potentially does expensive operations on the model, which is
called every time a role is resolved in `KFileItemModelRolesUpdater`.

With this change, the number of pointless layout calculations is
significantly reduced.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/kitemviews/kfileitemmodelrolesupdater.cpp b/src/kitemviews/kfileitemmodelrolesupdater.cpp
index ed762e98f..2107ebc5e 100644
--- a/src/kitemviews/kfileitemmodelrolesupdater.cpp
+++ b/src/kitemviews/kfileitemmodelrolesupdater.cpp
@@ -1350,7 +1350,9 @@ QHash<QByteArray, QVariant> KFileItemModelRolesUpdater::rolesData(const KFileIte
     for (KOverlayIconPlugin *it : qAsConst(m_overlayIconsPlugin)) {
         overlays.append(it->getOverlays(item.url()));
     }
-    data.insert("iconOverlays", overlays);
+    if (!overlays.isEmpty()) {
+        data.insert("iconOverlays", overlays);
+    }
 
 #if HAVE_BALOO
     if (m_balooFileMonitor) {