Added support for highlighting items by typing their name on the keyboard.

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+/***************************************************************************
+ * Copyright (C) 2011 by Tirtha Chatterjee <[email protected]> *
+ *                                                                         *
+ *   Based on the Itemviews NG project from Trolltech Labs:                *
+ *   http://qt.gitorious.org/qt-labs/itemviews-ng                          *
+ *                                                                         *
+ *   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify  *
+ *   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by  *
+ *   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or     *
+ *   (at your option) any later version.                                   *
+ *                                                                         *
+ *   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,       *
+ *   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of        *
+ *   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the         *
+ *   GNU General Public License for more details.                          *
+ *                                                                         *
+ *   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License     *
+ *   along with this program; if not, write to the                         *
+ *   Free Software Foundation, Inc.,                                       *
+ *   51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA            *
+ ***************************************************************************/
+
+#ifndef KITEMLISTKEYBOARDMANAGER_H
+#define KITEMLISTKEYBOARDMANAGER_H
+
+#include <libdolphin_export.h>
+
+#include <QObject>
+#include <QString>
+#include <QElapsedTimer>
+
+class KItemListController;
+class QInputMethodEvent;
+class QKeyEvent;
+
+/**
+ * @brief Controls the keyboard searching ability for a KItemListController.
+ *
+ * @see KItemListController
+ * @see KItemModelBase
+ */
+class LIBDOLPHINPRIVATE_EXPORT KItemListKeyboardSearchManager : public QObject
+{
+    Q_OBJECT
+
+public:
+
+    KItemListKeyboardSearchManager(QObject* parent = 0);
+    virtual ~KItemListKeyboardSearchManager();
+
+    /**
+     * Add \a keys to the text buffer used for searching.
+     */
+    void addKeys(const QString& keys);
+
+signals:
+
+    /**
+     * Is emitted when a text is to be searched.
+     * @param searchFromNextItem if true, start searching
+     * from item next to current item. Otherwise, search from
+     * current item.
+     */
+    void requestItemActivation(const QString& string, bool searchFromNextItem);
+
+private:
+    QString m_searchedString;
+    QElapsedTimer m_keyboardInputTime;
+};
+
+#endif
+
+