On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 04:00:21PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > On 02/17/2012 09:01 AM, Kristian Høgsberg wrote: > > ICCCM > > > > - clipboard manager interface? what's needed? just notification > > that the selection has gone away. should the clipboard manager be > > able to take over the selection "seamlessly", ie, with the same > > timestamp etc? Doesn't seem like we need that, the clipboard will > > have to set a new data_source anyway, with the subset of mimetypes it > > offers (the clipboad manager may only offer a subset of the types > > offered by the original data_source) > > Clipboard managers in X interact badly with programs that copy sensitive > information to the clipboard (e.g. KeePassX). As long as there will be > a new spec, should it have a way for the source of a clipboard selection > to indicate that the contents are sensitive and should not be saved at > all or shown on the screen unless requested?
The clipboard will not be a secure communication channel. If you're concerned about how your passwords are transmitted, use a different mechanism. Kristian _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
