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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.
that's kinda cool! something I mentioned on the topic of text on path... I think in general I like it better than the selcue.
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.
I don't see why, but even though I just posted my own reason against making it the default, I don't mind all that much.
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.
Thanx!