Comment 11 for bug 1832714

Maybe... But the action still happens, it just happens to the object you are hovering over instead of the selection.

What if, in addition to the colored selection box, we add a light item outlining when using the select tool? Then, when you have a group selected and the mouse is inside the selection bounding box, the selection is what is highlighted but if you are outside the bounding box, the bounding box color changes and you have the single item that will get the action outlined?

This would let us get rid of the automatic disambiguation menu because the user could see which item is receiving the action before they activate it. The disambiguation menu still exists when using the "Alt" modifier.

The more I think about it, the more I think this solves a number of UI issues (double-click being prominent). If there are not strong objections, I'm going to code this up to give it a try.