Tear off window in macOS. Bug or?

I like KiCad very much, especially because it keeps improving in both productivity and quality.

However, there is one thing that bothers me (is it a bug?) and it’s actually quite annoying.

The tear-off windows for the ‘Schematic Blocks’, ‘Properties’, ‘Schematic Hierarchy’, and ‘Net Navigator’ panels work fine, but sometimes they snap back into the main window. Also, when I restart KiCad, they return to their original positions inside the main window.

Why doesn’t KiCad preserve the panel locations across my displays?

I know that in other programs, like SketchUp, there are also issues with this, but maybe it’s something that could be fixed in KiCad.

So, is this a bug or simply not implemented yet?
If it’s the latter, should I submit a feature request somewhere?

There is a long standing issue to save/restore these “dockable panels”: Support save/load of dockable panel (AUI) states (#2381) · Issues · KiCad / KiCad Source Code / kicad · GitLab

You can give it a “thumbs up” on Gitlab to show support. From a quick skim of the comments though, sounds like any fixes are dependent on updates from the upstream wxWidgets project.

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