Variable Explorer viewers go to the background when opening several of them on Mac

[howaboutnothavinganame]

Description

What steps will reproduce the problem?

Reproduce the problem:
Opening multiple windows (i.e., the 'new window' option in panes), or double click to view nested objects in variable view.

One way of demostrating this is to create a dictionary of dataframes:
bar = {'foo': pd.DataFrame([[1,1,1],[2,2,2],[3,3,3]])}

Then on the variable view, double click the variable bar, then double click the dictionary key 'foo' to view the dataframe in a new window. This new window would be displayed underneath the already opened dictionary bar, instead of on the very 'top' layer.

Similar behaviours is seen when opening a new window when there was existing ones. i.e., when opening multiple editor windows, consoles, or opening this issue reporter.

Unsure if this makes any sense,,

Version info:

• Spyder version: 6.0.2 (conda)
• Python version: 3.12.7 64-bit
• Qt version: 5.15.8
• PyQt5 version: 5.15.9
• Operating System: macOS-13.5.1-arm64-arm-64bit

Versions

• Spyder version: 6.0.2 (conda)
• Python version: 3.12.7 64-bit
• Qt version: 5.15.8
• PyQt5 version: 5.15.9
• Operating System: macOS-13.5.1-arm64-arm-64bit

Dependencies

# Mandatory:
aiohttp >=3.9.3                  :  3.10.10 (OK)
applaunchservices >=0.3.0        :  0.3.0 (OK)
asyncssh >=2.14.0,<3.0.0         :  2.17.0 (OK)
atomicwrites >=1.2.0             :  1.4.1 (OK)
chardet >=2.0.0                  :  5.2.0 (OK)
cloudpickle >=0.5.0              :  3.1.0 (OK)
cookiecutter >=1.6.0             :  2.6.0 (OK)
diff_match_patch >=20181111      :  20230430 (OK)
github >=2.3.0                   :  2.4.0 (OK)
importlib_metadata >=4.6.0       :  8.5.0 (OK)
intervaltree >=3.0.2             :  3.1.0 (OK)
IPython >=8.13.0,<9.0.0,!=8.17.1 :  8.28.0 (OK)
jedi >=0.17.2,<0.20.0            :  0.19.1 (OK)
jellyfish >=0.7                  :  1.1.0 (OK)
jsonschema >=3.2.0               :  4.23.0 (OK)
keyring >=17.0.0                 :  25.4.1 (OK)
nbconvert >=4.0                  :  7.16.4 (OK)
numpydoc >=0.6.0                 :  1.8.0 (OK)
parso >=0.7.0,<0.9.0             :  0.8.4 (OK)
pexpect >=4.4.0                  :  4.9.0 (OK)
pickleshare >=0.4                :  0.7.5 (OK)
psutil >=5.3                     :  6.0.0 (OK)
pygments >=2.0                   :  2.18.0 (OK)
pylint >=3.1,<4                  :  3.3.1 (OK)
pylint_venv >=3.0.2              :  3.0.3 (OK)
pyls_spyder >=0.4.0              :  0.4.0 (OK)
pylsp >=1.12.0,<1.13.0           :  1.12.0 (OK)
pylsp_black >=2.0.0,<3.0.0       :  2.0.0 (OK)
pyuca >=1.2                      :  1.2 (OK)
qdarkstyle >=3.2.0,<3.3.0        :  3.2.3 (OK)
qstylizer >=0.2.2                :  0.2.3 (OK)
qtawesome >=1.3.1,<1.4.0         :  1.3.1 (OK)
qtconsole >=5.6.1,<5.7.0         :  5.6.1 (OK)
qtpy >=2.4.0                     :  2.4.1 (OK)
rtree >=0.9.7                    :  1.3.0 (OK)
setuptools >=49.6.0              :  75.1.0 (OK)
sphinx >=0.6.6                   :  8.1.3 (OK)
spyder_kernels >=3.0.1,<3.1.0    :  3.0.1 (OK)
superqt >=0.6.2,<1.0.0           :  0.6.7 (OK)
textdistance >=4.2.0             :  4.6.2 (OK)
three_merge >=0.1.1              :  0.1.1 (OK)
watchdog >=0.10.3                :  5.0.3 (OK)
yarl >=1.9.4                     :  1.15.3 (OK)
zmq >=24.0.0                     :  26.2.0 (OK)

# Optional:
cython >=0.21                    :  3.0.11 (OK)
matplotlib >=3.0.0               :  3.9.2 (OK)
numpy >=1.7                      :  2.1.2 (OK)
pandas >=1.1.1                   :  2.2.3 (OK)
scipy >=0.17.0                   :  1.14.1 (OK)
sympy >=0.7.3                    :  1.13.3 (OK)

[howaboutnothavinganame]

• As seen in the screenshot, dataframe 'bar' is always displayed underneath the dictionary foo.
• Double clicking etc. would not bring 'bar' to the front layer, it stays behind window 'foo'

[dalthviz]

Hi @howaboutnothavinganame sorry for the late response and thank you for the report! I was able to reproduce this with Spyder 6.0.3 on macOS:

We will try to check this in a future release 👍

Edit - For reference, this is the behavior I see on Windows (with Spyder 6.0.3):