[Spice-devel] How to drag a folder from client to guest?

[Marc-André Lureau]

----- Original Message -----
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 6:03 AM, Marc-André Lureau <mlureau at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> Probably the function of copying has three defects:
> >>
> >> i)For some languages,there is a mis-encoding of file name
> >> I have solved by myself...(under some circumstance)
> >>
> >
> > Yeah, I remember your patch, but you didn't follow up, right? Are you still
> > working on this?
> Aha:) I have followed your advices, but the effect is the same with I
> have patched
> I don't have good environment to do more test...So I still need to
> read source code deeply!
> 
> >> ii)Can't drag multi-files
> >> I'm glad to see the following in source code:
> >>  /* At the moment, the copy() method is limited to a single file,
> >>        support for copying multi-files will be implemented later. */
> >>     g_return_if_fail(sources[1] == NULL);
> >>
> >> iii)But, it doesn't support for drag folder
> >> Is there TODO I don't find? Or any ideas about solution?
> >
> >
> > Imho, dragging files/folder shouldn't be done via a Spice "copy" protocol.
> > Instead, Spice should learn to implement drag and drop. Afaik this should
> > be doable, but nobody worked on it.
> 
> Actually, I'm always curious if copying muti-files/folder can be done
> by compressing to a zip/... before transfering ......of course, it's not a
> cool solution...

Compression can be handled by a remote filesystem protocol. Imho, we shouldn't reimplement something like scp/rsync in Spice.

> > Otoh, you might be interested in the sharing folder functionality. It
> > allows you to have a folder on the client mounted/visible directly in the
> > guest. From there copy will work like a regular guest operation, with
> > guest UI etc.
> 
> Here's a  particular requirement that files can ONLY be draged from
> local to guest......

You mean currently? Yes, it's a known limitation. However, with the shared folder, you can copy to and from the client folder.

> 
> >This function is mostly ready, and I will submit a new patch this week (I'll
> >add you in CC).
> 
> I'm really appreciate to hear that, thx a lot:)
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