[Spice-devel] spice-xpi deprecated soon

[Christophe Fergeau]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 11:36:21AM +0530, RK RK wrote:
> Hi Team,
> 
> I have seen in https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Spice
> that xpi-activex (Browser plugins (to be deprecated)).

I cannot find the "to be deprecated" that you mention by looking
at this page, or at the bug list ;)

> 
> Does it mean that spice-xpi (Provided via yum in fedora and centos) will be
> deprecated and not supported in future releases? If so, then what will be
> drop in replacement for spice-xpi?

However, I think firefox is going to drop support for npapi plugins
sooner rather than later, and activex plugins are more and more
restricted in Windows land, so I would not be surprised if they stopped
working at some point. I think spice-xpi could be rewritten as a
firefox extension or something like that, but I've never looked into it.

Nowadays, oVirt uses .vv files rather than browser plugins to start
remote-viewer.

Can you give more details about your setup and your use of spice-xpi?

Thanks,

Christophe
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