Provide a way of specifying a parent for Dialogs/Popups different than the root object when using PopupUtils.open

[Albert Astals Cid]

In unity8 we have some special requirements regarding how Dialogs/Popups should be required to rotate given we have several layers of rotation (phone default orientation, if rotation is fixed, etc).

At the moment we can not use PopupUtils.open because that makes the Dialogs/Popups be children of the root item of the scene and that does not work for us.

Would be nice to either have another parameter to PopupUtils.open so that you can specify the parent of the Dialog or some other way to do it.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Cris Dywan (kalikiana)]

See also bug 1504551 which I think is related.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-ui-toolkit - 1.3.2166+17.04.20170130

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ubuntu-ui-toolkit (1.3.2166+17.04.20170130) zesty; urgency=medium

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  [ Arthur Mello ]
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  [ Daniel d'Andrada ]
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  [ Adnane Belmadiaf ]
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  [ Tim Peeters ]
  * Toolbar visual refresh to scroll the icons instead of using an overflow
    panel. Fixes LP: #1558018.
  * Add missing dependency for the UITK gallery. Fixes lLP: #1640135

  [ Sergio Cazzolato ]
  * This change is done to remove the dependencies with upstart in the tests.
    To start apps with env vars is gonna be used the launch_test_application
    method provided by autopilot in its test base class which is a wrapper for
    the ubuntu-app-launch tools (API). This change removes all the dependencies
    with upstart, so all the projects which are using the initctl api and
    fixtures will be impacted. An update in the documentation or in the blog is
    gonna be done also to communicate this change to the developers.

  [ Christian Dywan ]
  * Add visualRoot property to MainWindow. Fixes LP: #1504551, LP: #1656857.
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  [ Albert Astals Cid ]
  * Labs is at 1.0.
  * You can't save the focus after the popup/dialog has been created, at that
    stage the dialog has focus already, you need to do it before creating it.

 -- Zoltán Balogh <email address hidden> Mon, 30 Jan 2017 11:30:03 +0000