Towards 1.0

[Kristian Hoegsberg]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 04:00:21PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On 02/17/2012 09:01 AM, Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
> > ICCCM
> > 
> >  - clipboard manager interface?  what's needed?  just notification
> > that the selection has gone away.  should the clipboard manager be
> > able to take over the selection "seamlessly", ie, with the same
> > timestamp etc?  Doesn't seem like we need that, the clipboard will
> > have to set a new data_source anyway, with the subset of mimetypes it
> > offers (the clipboad manager may only offer a subset of the types
> > offered by the original data_source)
> 
> Clipboard managers in X interact badly with programs that copy sensitive
> information to the clipboard (e.g. KeePassX).  As long as there will be
> a new spec, should it have a way for the source of a clipboard selection
> to indicate that the contents are sensitive and should not be saved at
> all or shown on the screen unless requested?

The clipboard will not be a secure communication channel.  If you're
concerned about how your passwords are transmitted, use a different
mechanism.

Kristian