[PATCH weston 4/4] compositor: popup inherits surface transformation

[Daniel Stone]

On 20 December 2012 22:15, Bill Spitzak <spitzak at gmail.com> wrote:

> The big difference from X and Windows is that it is officially stated that
> the client can alter the parent pointer at any time, which avoids any needs
> for attempting to solve complex stacking issues using layers and groups or
> by having to support more than one "parent".
>

X has let you reparent windows since 1985; the call is called
XReparentWindow.
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