Remote desktop Chrome apps often needs to copy data from remote machine onto chromeos clipboard. Currently, chrome api only supports copying text data to clipboard. It is not convenient for remote app without image copying feature. This is one of the most demanding feature from our enterprise clients.
We plan to implement an extension API on ChromeOS to allow copying image to the clipboard. which is a practical and low cost solution to get the feature out on chromeos.
In the future, there may be an open-web solution to implement this feature, users can deprecate the extension API and switch to the open-web solution.
Comment 1 by jen...@chromium.org
, Jan 5 2017