Sidebar items always point to the page tab

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I'm trying to define plugin wide settings and I'd like to add the setting to the... Settings tab.

Fine: there is the settings-sidebar add-action.

But: the entry in the settings sidebar, then, points to the pages tab.

By reading the the I18N Special Pages's code I've found a workaround:

PHP Code:

// hack to get the link from the settings sidebar to go to the settings tab
$lists_admin_tab = 'pages';
if (basename($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']) == 'load.php' && @$_GET['id'] == $lists_plugin_id) {
  if (array_key_exists('lists_settings', $_REQUEST)) {
      $lists_admin_tab = 'settings';
  }
}

# register plugin
register_plugin(
  ...
  $lists_admin_tab, //page type - on which admin tab to display
  ...
); 


But, hey, shouldn't automatically an entry in one of the sidebars point to the tab where it shows up?
I don't see a user case where it should not be that way...

I can try to write and propose a patch, if there is an agreement about this being a useful feature.

Ciao
a.l.e