Re: Desktop as transient window

[Igor Korot <ikorot01 gmail com>]

Paul,

On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 12:33 PM, Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 12:31 PM, Igor Korot <ikorot01 gmail com> wrote:
> > Jasper,
> >
> > On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 7:19 PM, Jasper St. Pierre <jstpierre mecheye net> wrote:
> > > The desktop is not a window. It could be in some desktop environments,
> > > but is not always. In fact, in some desktop environments, there is no
> > > desktop window or desktop concept at all. There is no standard
> > > protocol to fetch the desktop window if it exists, either.
> > >
> > > The reason that unparented dialogs are discouraged are because in most
> > > cases, dialogs shouldn't just pop up out of the blue -- they should
> > > come from an understandable user action or application window to tie
> > > it back to. Otherwise, you might see a random dialog pop up at some
> > > point without knowing where it came from.
> >
> > I understand this part.
> > The trouble is - what if the application is dialog based?
> >
> > Let's say by design of my application it starts up by displaying the
> > dialog with some options
> > and after that the main window shows up after I click OK.
> >
> > How do I handle this?
>
> This has nothing to do with setting a transient parent, which is a
> specialized operation that is actually the wrong thing to do on some
> platforms anyway.
>
> In the use case you describe: you show the options dialog, when the
> user activates a dialog response you hide (or destroy) the dialog, and
> show the main window.

IIUC, in this specific case I should create the main frame, hide it and then
set the parent for my options dialog to be this main frame. Then after
the user hit
OK, I kill the dialog and display (show) the main frame.

Am I understajnd correctly?

Thank you.