Feature Request - Have the color of objects be the same as the ID in Layers and Objects dialog

Summary:

This is a feature request posted on behalf of user 'bob93' on the Inkscape forum. https://inkscape.org/forums/questions/have-the-color-of-objects-be-the-same-as-the-id-in-layers-and-objecs-dialog/

The default layer is blue, and all objects created in it have a blue name tag in the Layers and Objects dialog.

When working with lots of objects, repetitive clones, etc, it's easy to get lost.

It would be handy if it there was an option to have the objects names in the dialog of the same color as they appear on the canvas.

For example if I make a red sun with 60 rays using clones, every one of those "use####" objects should appear RED in the Layers and Objects dialog.

Instead they have the same color as the layer and I have to manually group them and change the color of the group. If this was done automatically I wouldn't even need to group them. I would know that every red use#### object is a sun ray. Then I could make a purple sun in a similar way, and its rays would be identified as use#### in the dialog

Is something like this possible?

I know I can avoid everything having the same color by using several layers because every layer has different color, but those colors are also preset and I would still have to change them to match what the layer contains, so it's not much different to creating groups inside one layer and coloring them.

Steps to reproduce:

I wrote a little extension to demonstrate what they want.

https://gitlab.com/inklinea/label-colours

What happened?

The extension adds inkscape:highlight-color="#xxxxxx" To objects.

What should have happened?

Adding the extra code to the SVG file works, but adds bloat.

This request is to have it integrated into the main Inkscape codebase, so no additional attributes need to be added to the SVG file, unless the user adds custom colours themselves.

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