Konsole: New tabs instead of windows

In konsole 26.04.0-1.1 under settings → Configure Konsole → General there is an option called “Force new tabs” with help text “When launching Konsole create a new tab instead of creating new windows if possible”.

I take that to mean that when the option is turned on, where possible konsole will try to open new tabs instead of windows. I turned the option on and tried 2 scenarios:

  1. Opened konsole, switched to dolphin and used option “Open Terminal here”
  2. Opened konsole, under menu options selected new window

With both of these newly requested instance of konsole opens in a new window instead of a tab. In the 2nd case that’s understandable because we are requesting an explicit “New Window”, but why does the 1st not work i.e. open in a new tab vs window.

Also, could someone give me an example of where this option does work?