a special text selector would be useful

[Bug Importer]

Fiddling with the text boxes is quite annoying. One has to click exactly on
the letters to get the box. Also, if there are empty lines below the
text--possibly to copy in some part from somewhere else--there is no way to
directly get back to there after having clicked into
another text box.

A select tool only for text (an arrow with an A at the right) would be nice
to help using inkscape like a text layout tool or a word processor. This
tool should always highlight all textboxes for the quick overview of the
page layout and allow the user to click into a text box anywhere where text
or free spaces are given. If one clicks outside the given text in the box,
the cursor should find the nearest position at the text automatically. When
two boxes overlap, the highest is chosen. When the text selection tool is
used, inkscape interprets a text box as opaque because overlayed text boxes
are of no use in text layout mode and transparent boxes would have to pass
clicks through instead of the behaviour written above.