I would go as far as to call this a bug that's been around in some form or another since the Consolidated Window came around. It's an area of DP I hope and pray they concentrate on next in updates or upgrades. I often think that DP is fantastic at large Projects with huge templates, and multiple monitors, but is not ideal for laptops, and smaller projects for various reasons like this.
Just give us a more integrated user experience, user selectable selection rules, fusion between clips and various editors...
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