Feature Request - Allow Files/Folder Drag and Drop for Windows RDP

GoogleCloudPlatform / iap-desktop

IAP Desktop is a Windows application that provides zero-trust Remote Desktop and SSH access to Linux and Windows VMs on Google Cloud.

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Feature Request - Allow Files/Folder Drag and Drop for Windows RDP #1401

Closed Nicolas-Arnaise closed 3 months ago

Nicolas-Arnaise commented 4 months ago

Hello, Could it be feasible to have in a future release a support for Drag&Drop files or folders between host Windows and remote Windows Server through the IAP RDP window ? As mentionned in issue #633 the copy/paste works to transfer files but when we use it to copy a large folder (taking multiple minutes to complete), if anything else enter the host Windows Clipboard the current transfer breaks. Also dragging and dropping looks more user friendly than a copy/paste between remote and host.

Thanks 😊

jpassing commented 3 months ago

I looked into this, but unfortunately it doesn't seem feasible. IAP Desktop uses the same (Windows-builtin) RDP component as mstsc.exe, and this component currently doesn't support drag and drop.

Another option to copy files would be to enable drive redirection (Connection settings > Redirect drives). Maybe that's an option?

I'll close this issue as I don't think there's anything we can do at the moment. But please let us know if you have further ideas or feedback!