Re: [Inkscape-user] Re: Area Selection Tool?

On 9/14/05, Chris Spencer <gmane.20.evilspam@...1069...> wrote:

Also, an additional use for this feature would be to allow easy "decomposition" of paths. Meaning, if you hand a single path that composed several visibly separate objects, you could remove or copy one of these objects just by clicking it. This would be amazingly useful.

You can just as easily do Path > Break apart for that.