Re: Desktop as transient window

["Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net>]

Hi Paul,

In recent GTK+ versions, GtkDialog emits a warning when it is mapped
without a parent, saying that it is discouraged. See
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+/tree/gtk/gtkdialog.c#n776

On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 9:43 AM, Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com> wrote:
> 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.



-- 
  Jasper