Comment 11 for bug 196453

A tree of objects would certainly help, but I would like it if my objects didn't get lost in the first place ;)

> Again: work in Outline mode, or hide that layer, or just move it away temporarily. Lots of ways to do what you want.

Working in Outline mode is limiting because it removes all the visual information about color and stroke.

I don't understand how you can get opacity and hiding mixed up like this. If I, as a user, wanted to hide my object I would either set the 'hide' property, or I would give it no fill and no stroke. Opacity has nothing to do with this.

I think the solution would be to make an Inkscape Preference for it. Put a checkbox in 'Tools->Selector' called 'Do not click-through 0% Opacity objects' or something.