Re: Desktop as transient window

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

You can either ignore the warning, or simply use a window that isn't
marked as a dialog as that first window.

On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 9:31 AM, 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?
>
> Thank you.
>
> > While we can often detect the parent window automatically, there are
> > sometimes cases where we cannot, and we warn to let you know that this
> > is one of these cases, so you can go and fix it. It is OK to ignore
> > that warning.
> >
> > On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Igor Korot <ikorot01 gmail com> wrote:
> > > Jasper,
> > >
> > > On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 6:39 PM, Jasper St. Pierre <jstpierre mecheye net> wrote:
> > > > As mentioned, dialogs are designed to be parented to a specific
> > > > window. As the warning says, this is discouraged (and might cause
> > > > things like Wayland not to work correctly). You can ignore the warning
> > > > if you want.
> > >
> > > Well, "Desktop" is a window, isn't it?
> > > So why I can't set it to be a parent to a dialog?
> > >
> > > And what if I have a dialog-based application? I should be able to set
> > > the parent
> > > to be a "Desktop", right?
> > >
> > > Or maybe I just need to get a pointer to a :"Desktop" window and
> > > supply it to that function?
> > > Will it work like this? If yes - what is this function name, if any?
> > >
> > > Thank you.
> > >
> > > > On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Igor Korot <ikorot01 gmail com> wrote:
> > > > > Hi, Jasper,
> > > > >
> > > > > On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 3:00 PM, Jasper St. Pierre <jstpierre mecheye net> wrote:
> > > > > > The default transient window is NULL, so you don't have to do anything.
> > > > >
> > > > > OK, I did call "gtk_window_set_transient_for( dlg, NULL );", but still
> > > > > got the warning
> > > > >
> > > > > GtkDialog mapped without a transient parent: This is discouraged.
> > > > >
> > > > > The thing is: I have my own GtkDialog class and I'm trying to
> > > > > eliminate this warning...
> > > > >
> > > > > Thank you.
> > > > >
> > > > > > On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Igor Korot <ikorot01 gmail com> wrote:
> > > > > > > Hi, ALL,
> > > > > > > There is a function in GTK - gtk_window_set_transient_for() - which
> > > > > > > sets the parent
> > > > > > > window for the current one.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Now the question I have is: is it possible to set the parent to become
> > > > > > > a Desktop?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Let's say I have an application class and I want to make sure that I
> > > > > > > already have a TLW
> > > > > > > to pass it to that function. Otherwise I want to use Desktop, because
> > > > > > > passing NULL
> > > > > > > according to documentation will unset it.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > [quote]
> > > > > > > Passing NULL for parent unsets the current transient window
> > > > > > > [/quote]
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > and it does not say it what happen if there was no such window in the
> > > > > > > first place.
> > > > > > > So if I will pass NULL for the parent and the transient is not being
> > > > > > > set, will it become
> > > > > > > set as a Desktop.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > This is not clear from the docs.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Thank you for clarification.
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> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
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> > > > > >   Jasper
> > > >
> > > >
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> > > >   Jasper
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