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This page includes a lot of features spice could use. It's an accumulation of both meetings and over the years added ideas. It is a jumbled mess. The feature pages are also not all that up to date. On the bright side, it can all be fixed - if you are in charge of a feature please try to update it! if you know something has been updated in code please fix it here!

For new features, please use this Template

Parenthesis give an indication of who is working on this.

1 In progress
2 Considered done/good enough
3 Probably done
4 Had some progress, now in limbo
5 Planned, no work yet, what are you waiting for?!

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In progress

Control client audio volume from guest
3D Support, Aero, gnome-shell, “full” 3d (alon)
Single device multiple monitors
Local Folder access (gal)
Spice X11 server (alon)
Windows driver rewrite (arnon)
virt-installer kick-ass (I guess boxes qualifies)
Features/SmartcardWindowsClient - windows client support for smartcard.

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Considered done/good enough

Sleep and Hibernate support (well, for windows - nothing for linux)
USB Support (hans)

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Probably done

policy for copy-paste (implemented on server side by hans)
Make spice server (optionally) use the new libjpeg-turbo color spaces (like JCS_EXT_RGB and JCS_EXT_RGBX) to avoid extra manual conversion steps in the spice code
Investigate the possibility to remove the need to perform GBR -> RGB conversions. The Win32 QXL driver advertises itself with PRIMARY_ORDER_CBA, which is GBR, but if it can be changed to work with RGB, perhaps we can remove the need for conversion (for example, in mjpeg code). Of course, it may be that there are other areas we'll then need to add conversion.

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Had some progress, now in limbo

Multiple Clients support (alon & yonit)

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Planned, no work yet, what are you waiting for?!

Faster compression (hans)

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Development related

Automated Testing
reorganize source code tree to share common parts (teuf was looking into it)
SystemTap (Dtrace) support

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Measurements

Bandwidth monitoring
Spice protocol dissector for Wireshark (Yaniv Kaul / uri) – allow dissection of the Spice protocol using Wireshark. Status: done, needs some improvements.

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Device / Drivers / Performance / Guest display features

Guest RAM surface allocation

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Better integration

Standalone applications support (marc, arnon)
app integration
Opening and releasing the XPI interface for spice
XPI for Firefox on Windows
Printer access (uri)
Webcam access (hans)
Network access (marc)
cd/dvd device sharing support
client monitor hot plug: we already match guest to monitor via VD_AGENT_MONITORS_CONFIG, but we only do it once on startup.
continuous resolution change (x11/xrandr driver, win ?)