feat(fuse,core,cli,gui): make folders available offline from the app

The daemon has kept recursive folder pins for a long time, but the app
offered "Available offline" for files only. The context menu, the
details pane and the selection bar now offer it for folders too, and a
pinned folder carries the offline badge in the browser and the launcher.

A folder pin used to download the whole subtree inside the control
request, so a large folder outlasted the client's 120 s read timeout,
and every pinned file was read into memory before it was cached. The
daemon now records the pin, answers at once and downloads on a
background thread as a job the tray and the app show, stopping when the
folder is unpinned or the daemon stops. Pins of files and folders both
go through fetch_content, which streams to disk and skips fresh blobs.
A folder pin is refused while offline instead of looking kept.

A file kept only because a folder above it is pinned has no pin of its
own, and unpinning it silently did nothing. ListDir now reports
pinned_by_folder; the app shows such an entry as available offline with
the toggle greyed out, and the daemon refuses the unpin with a message
naming the folder. Unpinning a folder no longer evicts files that are
pinned on their own.

Requested on Reddit.
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@@ -16,6 +16,12 @@ scratch (user data in `staging/` and `recovery/` is never touched by this).
`proton-drive-linux.cachix.org`, so NixOS installs download the client instead of compiling
it. See [Install → Binary cache](INSTALL.md#binary-cache).
([#37](https://github.com/narrrl/proton-drive-linux/issues/37))
- **Folders can be made available offline in the app.** The context menu, the details pane and
the selection bar now offer it for folders too. Every file in the folder and its subfolders
downloads in the background with its progress in the tray and the app, and pinned folders carry
the offline badge. A file kept through its folder shows as available offline but cannot be
made online only on its own. `pdfs pin` on a folder now returns at once instead of timing out
on a large folder, and pinned files download to disk instead of into memory.
### Fixed
- **Removing the package left the drive mounted, and deletes there still reached Proton Drive.**
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@@ -65,9 +65,9 @@ commands are for scripts and for cases where the mount is not available.
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
| `pdfs pin PATH` | Download a file completely and keep it on this computer. |
| `pdfs unpin PATH` | Release it back to online only. |
| `pdfs pins` | List files kept available offline. |
| `pdfs pin PATH` | Download a file completely and keep it on this computer. For a folder, its files download in the background (`pdfs transfers` shows the progress). |
| `pdfs unpin PATH` | Release it back to online only. A file inside a folder kept offline cannot be released on its own. |
| `pdfs pins` | List files and folders kept available offline. |
## Synced folders
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@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ The app uses these words consistently, and so does this guide:
| **My files** | The root of your Drive |
| **Proton Drive folder** | Where My files appears on disk, `~/ProtonDrive` by default |
| **Online only** | A file or folder whose content downloads when opened |
| **Available offline** | A single file kept on this computer |
| **Available offline** | A file, or a folder with everything in it, kept on this computer |
| **Synced folder** | A local folder with a full copy on this computer, backed up to Proton Drive |
| **Proton Drive service** | The background service (`proton-drive.service`) |
@@ -75,11 +75,14 @@ try to create them get a clean error, not a hang or `EIO`.
## Keeping files on this computer
Turn on **Make available offline** for a file in My files, or run `pdfs pin <path>`. The file is
downloaded completely and never evicted from the cache. `pdfs pins` lists these files, and
**Preferences → Storage → Available offline** shows them in the app.
Turn on **Available offline** for a file or folder in My files, or run `pdfs pin <path>`. A file
is downloaded completely and never evicted from the cache. For a folder, every file in it and in
its subfolders downloads in the background, and the tray and the app show the progress.
`pdfs pins` lists what is kept, and **Preferences → Storage → Available offline** shows it in the
app.
Turning it off (`pdfs unpin <path>`) frees the space. The file stays on Proton Drive.
Turning it off (`pdfs unpin <path>`) frees the space. The files stay on Proton Drive. A file inside
a folder kept offline stays with its folder: turn the folder off instead.
## Syncing local folders