did you find the time to test my patch in the thread above ?
Yes, so far I don't see that it broke anything. However, I am not using C::B very often at the moment. But for the Management pane and Logger pane it seems to work now as expected. I think that was the major concern, right?!
Yes !
It does not change anything for the editors,
prevents the management tabs from being closed, because C::B needs them and they can not be reopened,
toggles the management tabs instead of just closing them, so they can be reopened via context menu or if they are needed by the logger (like "Build log" for example).
I will commit at the weekend, I will not be at home except for the weekends the next weeks and I do not always have network connections like now.