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

[David Jaša]

INVITU píše v St 28. 11. 2012 v 10:45 -1000:
> 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

IMO there should be spice-server CLI switch similar to disable-copy-paste one. Dunrong?

David

> 
> 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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