modal File Manager dialog not set to be top of application layer

[emyoulation]

When using the Import Template feature, I left its Gtk File Manager dialog open to check a few questions on the net. (Finding the Gtk Unnamed Filter URL for insertion in the Issue report).

I have a 2 monitor set up. For the Gramps application layer: the left monitor had the Gramps Application window and the Configure Templates; the right monitor had the Console window to launch Gramps & the Gtk File Manager. Notepad++ & a Firefox browser were also on the right.

When I reactivated Gramps by clicking the Configure template dialog, Gramps was activate but the modal File Manager dialog was not brought to front. Like the console it remained behind the other Applications. (The Console is supposed to do that. The Console window is supposed to remain bottom-most unless the entire Application layer is brought to front.) Even when the Gramps application was brought to front as a layer, the File Manager was behind the Console.

There is a special trick to forced Gramps to keep a particular window always topmost in its application layer. Paul struggled with MANY bugs about it for years. It might also have Windoze specific idiosyncrasies. I do not know what he did to resolve it.

Might be related to 'Bug 8128 : GtkDialog mapped without a transient parent" where "You can fix this one by adding keyword argument "parent=self.top" at the end." This it NOT a bug that you should try to work through without consulting him. You could burn days inching ever closer to the answer without catching all the special cases.