[Spice-devel] xpi, spicec, remote-viewer & update-alternatives

[Alon Levy]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 03:38:28PM +0100, David Jaša wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> there is a problem with running the controller driven clients:
> 
>       * spice-xpi doesn't pass any option to spice-xpi-client symlink
>       * remote-viewer expects --spice-controller option
>       * spicec expects --controller option
>       * spice-xpi doesn't know which client is target of
>         spice-xpi-client symlink
> 
> The result is that current xpi can not run any client. I can see two
> possibilites of getting this working again:
> 
>       * remote-viewer's --spice-controller option will change to
>         --controller, spice-xpi will always run spice-xpi-client with
>         --controller option
>       * some magic is added to XPI to recognize client to which
>         spice-xpi-client symlink points to and based on that, decide if
>         it should be run with --controller or with --spice-controller.
>         (I don't like this option, think about slightly different paths
>         in different distros)
>       * remote-viewer is modified so that it behaves like when run with
>         --spice-controller option if file speficied SPICE_XPI_SOCKET
>         exists, ignoring other options
        * symlink points to a shell that is package specific, for spicec
          it uses --controller, for remote-viewer it uses
          --spice-controller.
> 
> I don't want to file concrete bugs until it is decided what is the best
> way.
> 
> David
> 
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