diff --git a/src/widgets/widgets/qdockarealayout.cpp b/src/widgets/widgets/qdockarealayout.cpp
index b33f2dc798..8d9280ebb5 100644
--- a/src/widgets/widgets/qdockarealayout.cpp
+++ b/src/widgets/widgets/qdockarealayout.cpp
@@ -2092,7 +2092,7 @@ void QDockAreaLayoutInfo::reparentWidgets(QWidget *parent)
         const QDockAreaLayoutItem &item = item_list.at(i);
         if (item.flags & QDockAreaLayoutItem::GapItem)
             continue;
-        if (!item.widgetItem && item.skip())
+        if (item.skip())
             continue;
         if (item.subinfo)
             item.subinfo->reparentWidgets(parent);
diff --git a/src/widgets/widgets/qmainwindowlayout.cpp b/src/widgets/widgets/qmainwindowlayout.cpp
index 68ca571acf..0d9c42fdf0 100644
--- a/src/widgets/widgets/qmainwindowlayout.cpp
+++ b/src/widgets/widgets/qmainwindowlayout.cpp
@@ -2195,10 +2195,8 @@ void QMainWindowLayout::animationFinished(QWidget *widget)
         }
 
         if (QDockWidget *dw = qobject_cast<QDockWidget*>(widget)) {
-            if (currentHoveredFloat) {
-                dw->setParent(currentHoveredFloat);
-                dw->show();
-            }
+            dw->setParent(currentHoveredFloat ? currentHoveredFloat.data() : parentWidget());
+            dw->show();
             dw->d_func()->plug(currentGapRect);
         }
 #endif