Re: Desktop as transient window

[Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com>]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 12:42 PM, Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 12:40 PM, Igor Korot <ikorot01 gmail com> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> you do not need to set the parent, and in almost all cases you should
> not set the parent.

to be clear, i am referring to explicitly setting the "transient
parent" of a GtkWindow. I am not referring to setting the parent of a
GtkDialog, but GtkDialog's are entirely happy to have no parent.