[Spice-devel] spicec and spice-gtk

Cliff Sharp csharp at vbridges.com
Fri Apr 29 08:06:39 PDT 2011


This is great - thank you

On Apr 29, 2011, at 10:01 AM, Marc-André Lureau wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
>> There are a number of companies that interface to spicec
>> programmatically.
>> 
>> These companies right now do a fork exec or whatever to run spicec
>> from within their software products.
>> There are a number of reasons why they do not implement the spice
>> protocol within their products and why they don't include the spicec
>> software as part of their code base for their projects.
>> 
>> 
>> So, firstly I feel we should support command line with spice-gtk so
>> these people can switch over quickly.
> 
> We have an option group, even provided as part of the spice-client-glib API, and usable from spicy:
> 
> $ spicy --help-spice
> Usage:
>  spicy [OPTION...] - spice client application
> 
> A Gtk client to connect to Spice servers.
> 
> Spice Options:
>  --uri=<uri>                       Spice server uri
>  -h, --host=<host>                 Spice server address
>  -p, --port=<port>                 Spice server port
>  -s, --secure-port=<port>          Spice server secure port
>  --ca-file=<file>                  Truststore file for secure connections
>  -w, --password=<password>         Server password
>  --host-subject=<host-subject>     Subject of the host certificate (field=value pairs separated by commas)
> 
> Report bugs to spice-devel at lists.freedesktop.org.
> 
> 
>> 
>> Then I recommend that we create a library/framework/API so that
>> companies can use spice much easier programmatically.
> 
> Spice-Gtk has a complete API. It allows to create complete clients without GTK using spice-client-glib.
> 
> See reference documentation: http://fedorapeople.org/~elmarco/spice-gtk/
> 
> regards
> 
> -- 
> Marc-André Lureau


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