[Spice-devel] [PATCH spice-protocol V3] vd_agent.h: drag-and-drop support

[INVITU]

Dear all

Please keep in mind that some organization would want to forbid 
transfers between guest and client (for security reasons)
The feature should be available with a setup parameter

Best regards

Cyril

Le 28/11/2012 10:03, Hans de Goede a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> On 11/28/2012 01:24 PM, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> ----- Mensaje original -----
>>> At present, Vmware and Virtualbox has supported file drag&drop
>>> feature,
>>> I think it's a good feature for users, so we want qemu/spice to
>>> supports it.
>>>
>>> This patch first adds communication protocol between client and
>>> guest,
>>> we must make the agent protocol stable before coding, this is what we
>>> want this patch to do.
>>>
>>> This feature has been discussed on spice mailing list.
>>>
>>> The more details are available at following pages:
>>> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/spice-devel/2012-November/011400.html 
>>>
>>> and
>>> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/spice-devel/2012-November/011485.html 
>>>
>>
>> Something that we haven't discussed yet afaik is support for 
>> drag&drop from guest to client. The clipboard agent messages work 
>> both ways. It looks to me like the Xfer messages would work in both 
>> directions.
>
> I think that we should stop seeing this as drag and drop support, and
> start talking it as a file transfer mechanism. We happen to plan to
> add file drag and drop to the client window as a ui to initiate a file
> transfer in the client -> guest direction. But we could have a menu
> entry where a file open dialog gets shown too, etc.
>
> And purely as a file transfer protocol I see no problems with using
> this in the other direction either. Now for a UI for the other 
> direction...
>
> Regards,
>
> Hans
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