[Spice-devel] [PATCH spice-protocol] vd_agent: Add caps for the agent to signal the guest line-ending (rhbz#752350)

[Marc-André Lureau]

Hi

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> When copy and pasting between a Linux guest and a Windows client or visa
> versa, the line-endings of the text will usually be wrong for the other side,
> so it is desirable to do automatic conversion.
> 
> However sometimes it is possible for text in the clipboard on Linux to have
> MSDOS (CRLF) style line-endings, when copy and pasting from Linux to Linux
> it is undesirable to automatically convert these, since this would not happen
> when the apps were running directly on the same machine.
> 
> So we want to do automatic conversion only if the client and guest native
> line-endings differ. This means that we cannot simply define one standard
> line-ending for VD_AGENT_CLIPBOARD_UTF8_TEXT data.
> 
> Given the above it makes sense to only do conversion on one end. This
> patch adds new capabilities which allow the guest-agent to advertise what
> is the native line-ending of the guest.
> 
> This should be used by the client in the following way:
> 1) Check if the guest-agent advertises any line-ending type at all, if not
> the guest line-ending is unknown -> do not convert
> 2) If the guest's native line-ending matches that of the platform the client
> is running on, then do no not convert
> 3) If the guest's native line-ending is different from the client platform,
> then convert received clipboard data into the client platform's native
> line-ending, and convert clipboard data which will be send to the guest-agent
> into the guest's native line-ending.
> 

Sounds good. Do we have a bug about that btw?