Why can you reveal and dock panels when working with new blur filters ?

Hi all,
It's purely an academic question, but I've been working through the new CS6 blur Filters and I notice you can customise the UI Panel layout as you would with the main Panels in Photoshop. I notice that you can also reveal and add any other Photoshop Panels from the Window menu, though they're non functional.
Is there any significance behind this, beyond providing a slightly different UI layout ?
As an aside, I'm liking many of the new features, but like others have noted, I'm finding the Adjustments Panel now pretty redundant and have reverted to the pre-CS4 way of creating Adjustment Layers - from the menu at the bottom of the Layers Panel.
Thanks

I noticed that too.  It appears the Photoshop engineers have sort of repurposed the named Workspace layout process during the execution of certain filters.
I can see that this has both good aspects and bad.  Personally, if Adobe is going to change everything around entirely, I think I would personally prefer a "filter" (plug-in) style dialog.  I really dislike things that change.  In my case, I normally edit with images on my left monitor and all the panels on my right.  But for filter/plug-in dialogs, I put them on the right monitor.  If nothing else, it gives me an at-a-glance "before" version of the image to look at, and in some cases the filters actually update the overall image, so I can be looking at the plug-in dialog at high magnification and also see what the filter has done to the image overall.
Maybe with one monitor the new approach is better, I don't know.  The way I work I'm not too fond of it.
-Noel

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