Hi, On Wednesday, November 7, 2018 5:18 PM, Albert Vaca <[email protected]> wrote: > I would like to start a discussion about the need of a protocol for clipboard > management in Wayland. As far as I know, the current approach for clipboard > managers and similar apps requires them to be implemented as part of the > compositor. This is of course a limitation for third party clipboard managers > and apps like KDE Connect, which I maintain. > > For some context, KDE Connect is a service that bridges your smartphone and > your computers together, with features like wireless file transfers, shared > notifications, or a shared clipboard across devices (on X11). > > For the clipboard synchronization in KDE Connect to work on Wayland, we need > a way to: > - Change the contents of the clipboard. > - Get notified about the contents of the clipboard when it changes. > > I think our needs are very similar to those of clipboard managers, so > probably one single protocol could address both necessities. > > What do you think? Should I make a protocol proposal for this use case? Is > there any similar use case that I'm overlooking?
This is something wlroots would also be interested in. This could be useful for xclip-like clients and "real" clipboard managers (which let you e.g. navigate in the clipboard history). I've already started to work on a protocol [1]. It would be nice if we could share it. Questions and comments welcome! Note that there are security considerations that need to be taken into account. Thanks, [1]: https://github.com/swaywm/wlr-protocols/pull/25 --- Simon Ser https://emersion.fr _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
