Reopen last active tab when another tab in the same panel is closed

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Issue type

UX/Interaction bug (incorrect behaviour)

Description with steps to reproduce

The new auto-open-and-close preference for the Percussion panel (introduced in this PR) make it very common for a panel to be opened and closed often.

If I have multiple tabs open in the bottom panel area (i.e. Mixer and Piano keyboard), and I open and close the Percussion panel by clicking an unpitched percussion staff and then clicking elsewhere, the bottom panel always opens the first tab in the group. Instead, it should make the last tab I had open the active tab.

This rule could apply to any group of tabbed panels, not just the bottom-docked panels.

Supporting files, videos and screenshots

When the Percussion panel gets automatically closed, 'Mixer' always becomes the active tab because it's in the first tab position. Instead, the view should return to whichever tab I had previously selected.

panel_close_remember.mov

What is the latest version of MuseScore Studio where this issue is present?

Dev builds 13Feb25

Regression

No.

Operating system

macOS 15

Additional context

No response

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