[Spice-devel] [PATCH] spice: vdagent: add basic clipboard support

[Attila Sukosd]

Sorry for hijacking this, but whats the irc server/channel name?

Cheers,

Attila

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Alexander Larsson <alexl at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 12:58 +0300, Arnon Gilboa wrote:
> > From: Arnon Gilboa <agilboa at agilboa.usersys.redhat.com>
> >
> > -currently supports text only (UTF8)
> > -add VDAgent::dispatch_message()
> > -in VDAgent::read_completion() handle multi-chunk msgs
> > -fix chunk size bug in VDService::handle_pipe_data()
> > -add size to VDPipeMessage
>
> This reads out the clipboard and writes it to the client on every
> change. This is bad for two reasons:
>
> 1) It sends a lot of data to the client when it might not be needed
> 2) It always forces clipboard using apps to serialize any clip board
> data it has to text and pass it to windows every time someone copies and
> pastes. This is unnecessary in most cases since cut and paste is mostly
> intra-application. Additionally it may be costly since if you copy
> something more complex like pdf or html extracting the text from it may
> not be trivial.
>
> I know we discussed this on irc. What is the status of that?
>
> I guess we could split out the pure bugfixes from this and commit
> though.
>
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