[Inkscape-devel] idea: Exposée-like effect for visualizing complex stacks of svg elements in Inkscape ?

I have been using inkscape a lot recently and I noticed that sometimes it can become very annoying to select svg elements that are in the middle of a pile of other elements.

Thus, I was thinking that we could have a key-combo that would break appart all "hidden" shapes to allow you to select one of them, and after that, all shapes would be places back in their correct places. Sometimes I do something similar to that by hand, but an automated UI feature would be very useful. Also, it would be solely a visualization mode, not actualy modifying elements in the SVG DOM.

I'd like to have some feedback on this idea. thanks,

Felipe Sanches (Juca)