Clipboard manager use case

[Albert Vaca]

On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 12:16 PM Simon Ser <contact at emersion.fr> wrote:

> On Thursday, November 8, 2018 3:40 PM, Albert Vaca <albertvaka at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi Simon,
> >
> > I've given your proposal a read, and found it quite complicated. There
> are
> > concepts like "data device" or "data source" that seem too abstract from
> my
> > point of view. I guess your idea is that the clipboard is just one of
> many
> > possible "data devices", but I find this unnecessarily generic.
>
> No, this is not it. There is only one global "clipboard". The protocol
> doesn't
> aim to be generic, it just uses different names. As said in the pull
> request,
> this protocol is just a copy of the "clipboard" interfaces in the core
> Wayland
> protocol. I suggest you read [1] which gives an overview of how this works.
>
> Basically:
>
> * There is one data device per seat
> * You can set the selection by creating a data source
> * You get get the current selection by using a data offer
>
> > In my opinion, I would prefer a protocol that just talks about the
> clipboard and
> > its contents. Something similar to the Android Clipboard Manager API
> [1], on
> > Wayland.
>
> Unfortunately you won't be able to create a Wayland protocol from a Java
> API.
> Wayland is not an RPC protocol, it's an asynchronous protocol.
>
> [1]:
> https://wayland.freedesktop.org/docs/html/ch04.html#sect-Protocol-data-sharing
>
>
Simon,

Thanks for the clarification. I found the wording a bit confusing, but if
that's the wording already in use then I agree we should stick with it.

That said, you have my +1 on your proposal.

What do we need to do in order to move this forward? I see the proposal has
been up for some months but didn't get much attention.

If it is approved, I can probably make it happen on the KDE side, but it
would be nice have input from other compositors.

Albert
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