When a QDockWidget's dock areas are restricted by setAllowedAreas(...) and a second QDockWidget is hovered over it, the first QDockWidget can be docked to any dock area of the main window. Area restrictions will be ignored. That is due to the first QDockWidget being implicitely mutated into a QDockWidgetGroupWindow upon hovering. By definition, the latter has no docking restricitons. This fix adds a check if a QDockWidgetGroupWindow has a single QDockWidget child. In that case, the single child's area permissions will restrict docking. Fixes: QTBUG-100670 Pick-to: 6.3 6.2 5.15 Change-Id: I903b074739953791634f482c9cf4b9a95a1d93d3 Reviewed-by: Volker Hilsheimer <volker.hilsheimer@qt.io>