Comment 3 for bug 187531

You mean 'my expectation', right? People come to Inkscape with a wide
range of UI history/prejudices ;)

Anyhow, there's one additional aspect of this I'd like to have cleared
up while we have Bulia's attention. Using your same example file, if I
group the two blue rectangles before dragging, then I don't need to
hold Alt to get the behavior you request. They are still visually
below the pink squiggle, but I can now drag the 'lower' group. Is this
expected behavior?

On Jan 31, 2008 3:21 PM, Matt Rasmussen <email address hidden> wrote:
> Crufty solution. The user expectation when dragging within an existing
> selection is to manipulate that selection. Further, it traps the
> expected behavior of option(alt)-drag when a selection overlaps the
> current view.
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> Marquee select ignored if there is an object in the foreground
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187531
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