On desktop there's a solid example of reparenting -- plugin windows in a browser. Those subwindows (like Flash) are rendered by an external process. Although supporting Flash going forward is probably not important at all. And we need the browsers themselves to support Mir first.
Some kind of parent-child relationship will indeed be required to implement modal dialogs at least.
On desktop there's a solid example of reparenting -- plugin windows in a browser. Those subwindows (like Flash) are rendered by an external process. Although supporting Flash going forward is probably not important at all. And we need the browsers themselves to support Mir first.
Some kind of parent-child relationship will indeed be required to implement modal dialogs at least.