Hence a question: would you agree or disagree if I make bbox selcue
the
default?
It seems a little akward somehow (visually), but is significantly more useful than the current default in my opinion. I guess it's probably because I've always used Illustrator and they do solid light blue selcues (irrelevant), as well as they highlight the outline of objects as you hover over them (and if highlighting an already selected object it just thinkens the highlight). Basically it just highlights which object you _would_ select if you were to click.
Sorry for getting OT, I think the bounding box selcue should probably be made the default. For people new to inkscape especially, it's something that would help the transition from other vector drawing programs, as well as if you have shapes that happen to be lined up in the top left corner.
Back to my OT but related stuff real quick... I didn't notice any existing RFEs for that "hover" feature I described above. So I think I will submit one later after searching a little more in depth to make sure it's not a dupe.
-Josh