Re: centering child dialogs on parent windows in gtk+ 2.0

[Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com>]

On 2/22/02 2:51 PM, "Havoc Pennington" <hp redhat com> wrote:

> A copy progress dialog would normally be set transient for the window
> it's over, yes. 

Except that the copy from an ftp server could take 20 minutes, and the
person who started the copy might want to close the window underneath, but
the copy progress dialog would need to stay open.

Or maybe I misunderstand what "transient" means.

    -- Darin