[Spice-devel] RFC [spice-gtk] session: Allow to delay sending clipboard to the guest

[Marc-André Lureau]

Hi

----- Original Message -----
> On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 12:16:33PM -0500, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> > I think it's problematic for traditional applications as well.
> > clipboard access is probably going to be limited by default and only
> > accessed through so-called "portals", just like file access etc. This
> > topic should be brought on desktop / flatpak mailing list.
> 
> Maybe in some distant future, all applications everyone is running will
> be flatpak, and will be using portals to improve security. The same
> thing can be said regarding wayland, which does not have this issue.
> Some time in the future, this will become a non-issue. However, solving
> this now on x11 is definitely not something which should be related to
> portals/flatpak in my opinion.

I propose a --spice-disable-clipboard, and client UI to switch on/off clipboard sharing functionality.

Something different will likely break some clipboard users or lower experience.