Hi all,
If you could use the scroll-wheel to cycle through the objects when Alt is pressed, that would make it faster, and avoid the chance of accidentally double-clicking (I do that all the time when using alt-click -- rather frustrating).
[...] Now, anyone wants to code this so we can try it out?
I thought I'd use this as a small project after a long break to take a first step back into Inkscape development (see bzr rev. #9976). You can now cycle through items that are stacked on top of each other by using Alt+mouse wheel scroll (use Shift+Alt to add to selection). I hope it is intuitive enough but let me know of any problems or suggestions you might have. At the moment, groups are not honoured (i.e., only individual items within groups are selected). Should this be added (perhaps using Ctrl as the keyboard modifier)? Could there be problems with nested groups, though?
Cheers, Max
P.S.: I also extended the status messages in the Selection tool to indicate this new way of selecting items but given that I am not a native speaker I'm sure they can be improved so feel free to modify them.