More detailed information on paste dialogue

[starfys]

When pasting from the Qubes clipboard, a notification appears that says

Qubes Clipboard has been copied to the VM and wiped.
Trigger a paste operation (e.g. Ctrl-v) to insert it into an application.

Relevant source (line 100)

Could it be changed to include the target VM name just for a bit more reassurance that data is being pasted to the right place?

Possible replacement:

Qubes Clipboard has been copied to VM: 'personal' and wiped.
Trigger a paste operation (e.g. Ctrl-v) to insert it into an application.

This would provide extra reassurance and be more in line with the notification shown when copying to the Qubes clipboard.

[jpouellet]

This is not easy because of how that code in question is obtaining the VM names.

That code is not at all in the call path of the copy/paste operations, it is only watching the files which are produced as a side-effect of the current implementation of copy/paste (done by the gui-daemon).

The source VM name is stored in a file which can be easily observed, the target VM name is not.

Implementing this would require changes elsewhere as well in order to obtain that information.

[jpouellet]

This is not easy because of how that code in question is obtaining the VM names.

That code is not at all in the call path of the copy/paste operations, it is only watching the files which are produced as a side-effect of the current implementation of copy/paste (done by the gui-daemon).

The source VM name is stored in a file which can be easily observed, the target VM name is not.

Implementing this would require changes elsewhere as well in order to obtain that information.