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+Dialogs which have no transient parent or root window being
+their tranisent parent are the ones which will be visible in
+the tasklist.
+
+All such dialogs will be *always* on top of the window
+group i.e they would transients for the whole group.
+
+
+1) Modal dialogs
+
+
+ * If you wish to open another window from a modal dialog
+
+ open *only* a modal dialog and set it's transient parent.
+
+
+2) Normal dialog
+
+
+ without transient parent
+
+ * If you wish to open another window from a normal dialog
+
+ open either a normal dialog or a modal dialog only.
+ Set the transient parent for the child dialog if you do not
+ want them to be transient for all the other windows in the group.
+
+ with transient parent
+
+ * If you wish to open another window from a normal dialog
+
+ you could open any type of window.