Mir

[enhancement] Support copy-paste between X and Mir

Bug #1471998 reported by Robert Ancell on 2015-07-06

This bug affects 7 people

	Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
Canonical System Image	Fix Released	High	Unassigned	Canonical System Image 13 "OTA13"
Libertine	Status tracked in Devel
Devel	Fix Released	Medium	Christopher Townsend	Libertine 1.4
Trunk	Fix Released	Medium	Christopher Townsend	Libertine 1.4
Mir	Fix Released	High	Brandon Schaefer	Mir 0.19.0
content-hub (Ubuntu)	Won't Fix	Medium	Unassigned
libertine (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Medium	Christopher Townsend
mir (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned
qtmir (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	High	Daniel d'Andrada
qtubuntu (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	High	Daniel d'Andrada

Bug Description

X applications should be able to paste from Mir applications and vice versa.

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lp://staging/~mir-team/mir/public-cookie-api

Merged into lp://staging/mir at revision 3269

PS Jenkins bot (community): Approve (continuous-integration) on 2016-01-26

Alan Griffiths: Abstain on 2016-01-25

Mir CI Bot: Approve (continuous-integration) on 2016-01-25

Andreas Pokorny (community): Approve on 2016-01-23

Alexandros Frantzis (community): Needs Fixing on 2016-01-22

Alberto Aguirre (community): Approve on 2016-01-22

Chris Halse Rogers: Approve on 2016-01-21

Daniel van Vugt: Abstain on 2016-01-21

Kevin DuBois (community): Approve on 2016-01-14

lp://staging/~ken-vandine/content-hub/pasteboard

Merged into lp://staging/content-hub at revision 292

Tyler Hicks: Approve on 2016-08-25

system-apps-ci-bot: Needs Fixing (continuous-integration) on 2016-08-25

Daniel d'Andrada (community): Approve on 2016-08-03

PS Jenkins bot: Pending (continuous-integration) requested 2016-06-02

lp://staging/~dandrader/qtubuntu/content-hub-clipboard

Merged into lp://staging/qtubuntu at revision 341

Unity8 CI Bot: Needs Fixing (continuous-integration) on 2016-08-24

Ken VanDine: Approve on 2016-08-03

lp://staging/~dandrader/qtmir/content-hub-clipboard

Merged into lp://staging/qtmir at revision 556

Michael Terry (community): Approve (testing) on 2016-08-29

Unity8 CI Bot (community): Needs Fixing (continuous-integration) on 2016-08-26

Gerry Boland: Pending (code) requested 2016-08-24

lp://staging/~townsend/libertine/pasted

Merged into lp://staging/libertine/trunk at revision 156

Larry Price: Approve on 2016-08-16

lp://staging/~ci-train-bot/libertine/libertine-ubuntu-yakkety-landing-056

lp://staging/~ci-train-bot/libertine/libertine-ubuntu-yakkety-landing-037 (Merged)

lp://staging/libertine

Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) on 2015-07-06

Changed in xorg-server (Ubuntu):
status:	New → In Progress
importance:	Undecided → Medium
assignee:	nobody → Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)
tags:	added: xmir

Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) on 2015-07-30

Changed in xorg-server (Ubuntu):
status:	In Progress → Triaged
assignee:	Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) → nobody

Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) on 2015-08-28

Changed in xorg-server (Ubuntu):
assignee:	nobody → Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)

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Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) wrote on 2015-08-28:

The Unity 8 interface:
- Use libcontent-hub
- On X selection ownership initiate a transfer to "pasteboard"
- Charge the transfer with content pulled from the X client
- Monitor pasteboard for available content (not implemented yet)
- Pull content from content hub when X client pastes
- Mir will provide cookies for authentication (not implemented yet)

Revision history for this message

Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) wrote on 2015-08-28:

Can implement copy from Unity 8 to XMir with current libcontent-hub API, cannot implement copy from X to Unity 8.
However, a new object will be implemented in libcontent-hub that contains "pasteboard" specific methods that will need to switch to when it is implemented.

Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) on 2015-09-21

tags:	added: enhancement
summary:	- Support copy-paste between X and Mir + [enhancement] Support copy-paste between X and Mir

Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) on 2015-10-28

Changed in xorg-server (Ubuntu):
importance:	Medium → Low

Brandon Schaefer (brandontschaefer) on 2016-01-12

Changed in mir:
status:	New → In Progress
importance:	Undecided → High
assignee:	nobody → Brandon Schaefer (brandontschaefer)

Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) on 2016-01-13

Changed in mir:
milestone:	none → 0.19.0

Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) on 2016-01-20

Changed in mir:
milestone:	0.19.0 → 0.20.0

Revision history for this message

Brandon Schaefer (brandontschaefer) wrote on 2016-01-20:

The work needed for this needs to land in 0.19 (or so im told?). Should i keep this at 0.19? Or just leave at 0.20 until its landed then move it to 0.19?

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PS Jenkins bot (ps-jenkins) wrote on 2016-01-26:

Fix committed into lp:mir at revision None, scheduled for release in mir, milestone 0.20.0

Changed in mir:
status:	In Progress → Fix Committed

Brandon Schaefer (brandontschaefer) on 2016-01-26

Changed in mir:
milestone:	0.20.0 → 0.19.0

Revision history for this message

Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote on 2016-01-28:

When we discussed this last week it become apparent that reading/writing the X clipboard may not require any work in the X server. So not sure if Xmir needs touching at all for this.

Changed in xorg-server (Ubuntu):
status:	Triaged → Incomplete
assignee:	Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) → nobody

Emanuele Antonio Faraone (emanueleant03) on 2016-01-31

Changed in xorg-server (Ubuntu):
status:	Incomplete → Confirmed

Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) on 2016-02-01

Changed in xorg-server (Ubuntu):
status:	Confirmed → Incomplete

Revision history for this message

Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote on 2016-02-01:

mir (0.19.0+16.04.20160128-0ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium

Changed in mir:
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released
Changed in mir (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Fix Released

Revision history for this message

Christopher Townsend (townsend) wrote on 2016-06-29:

Adding Libertine to this as it will have a new "pasted" daemon that handles the transfer of pasteboard content between Xmir and content-hub.

Changed in libertine (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Triaged
importance:	Undecided → Medium

Revision history for this message

Christopher Townsend (townsend) wrote on 2016-07-11:

Invalidating the xmir part of this since this is going to be handled using the pasted daemon, content-hub, and support in Qt.

Changed in xorg-server (Ubuntu):
status:	Incomplete → Invalid

Christopher Townsend (townsend) on 2016-07-11

Changed in content-hub (Ubuntu):
status:	New → In Progress
importance:	Undecided → Medium
assignee:	nobody → Ken VanDine (ken-vandine)

Christopher Townsend (townsend) on 2016-07-11

Changed in qtubuntu (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Medium
status:	New → Triaged
Changed in unity8 (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Medium
status:	New → Triaged

Christopher Townsend (townsend) on 2016-07-27

Changed in libertine:
milestone:	1.3 → 1.4

Christopher Townsend (townsend) on 2016-07-29

Changed in qtubuntu (Ubuntu):
status:	Triaged → In Progress
assignee:	nobody → Daniel d'Andrada (dandrader)
tags:	removed: xmir
no longer affects:	xorg-server (Ubuntu)
no longer affects:	unity8 (Ubuntu)

Michał Sawicz (saviq) on 2016-07-29

Changed in qtmir (Ubuntu):
status:	New → In Progress
importance:	Undecided → High
Changed in qtubuntu (Ubuntu):
importance:	Medium → High
Changed in qtmir (Ubuntu):
assignee:	nobody → Daniel d'Andrada (dandrader)

Christopher Townsend (townsend) on 2016-08-10

Changed in libertine (Ubuntu):
status:	Triaged → In Progress
assignee:	nobody → Christopher Townsend (townsend)

Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) on 2016-09-05

Changed in canonical-devices-system-image:
importance:	Undecided → High
milestone:	none → 13
status:	New → Fix Committed

Revision history for this message

Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2016-09-06:

This bug was fixed in the package qtubuntu - 0.63+16.10.20160831-0ubuntu1

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qtubuntu (0.63+16.10.20160831-0ubuntu1) yakkety; urgency=medium

[ Daniel d'Andrada ]
* Use content-hub for clipboard services (LP: #1471998)

-- Ken VanDine <email address hidden> Wed, 31 Aug 2016 01:51:46 +0000

Changed in qtubuntu (Ubuntu):
status:	In Progress → Fix Released

Revision history for this message

Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2016-09-06:

#10

This bug was fixed in the package libertine - 1.4+16.10.20160901.1-0ubuntu1

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libertine (1.4+16.10.20160901.1-0ubuntu1) yakkety; urgency=medium

  [ Chris Townsend ]
  * Add a background process that allows copying & pasting between an X app,
    another X app, and native Unity 8 apps. (LP: #1471998)

-- Ken VanDine <email address hidden> Thu, 01 Sep 2016 20:06:21 +0000

Changed in libertine (Ubuntu):
status:	In Progress → Fix Released

Revision history for this message

Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2016-09-06:

#11

This bug was fixed in the package qtmir - 0.4.8+16.10.20160831-0ubuntu1

---------------
qtmir (0.4.8+16.10.20160831-0ubuntu1) yakkety; urgency=medium

  [ Daniel d'Andrada ]
  * DBusFocusInfo: added isSurfaceFocused(serializedId)
  * Use content-hub for clipboard services (LP: #1471998)
  * Don't link tests against LTTng

-- Ken VanDine <email address hidden> Wed, 31 Aug 2016 01:52:12 +0000

Changed in qtmir (Ubuntu):
status:	In Progress → Fix Released

Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan) on 2016-09-20

Changed in canonical-devices-system-image:
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

Ken VanDine (ken-vandine) on 2018-03-27

Changed in content-hub (Ubuntu):
assignee:	Ken VanDine (ken-vandine) → nobody
status:	In Progress → Won't Fix

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