Feature request: control on bounding box of clipped object

This issue was already described in this old post:

https://answers.launchpad.net/inkscape/+question/141801

To my knowledge, it is unchanged in v0.91 (that I'm using on a Win7, 64bit machine).

I think the discussion was not complete and I'd like to re-petition for an option to control how the bounding box of a clipped object is treated, independently of the global setting (visual or geometric).

It is unpractical that, to have the bounding box correspond to the clipping shape, you have to globally set the bounding box to "visual". This makes some operations simply impossible. Here is an example:
- make an ellipse and a rectangle that intersects it. Select both and "set clip", so that part of the ellipse is now hidden (clipped).
- make another rectangle and assign to it a thick stroke (but really any stroke different from 0 would in principle present a problem).
- now try to align the left of the _clipped_ ellipse to the _geometrical_ left of the rectangle.
If you set the overall bounding box to visual, you align the clipped ellipse to the _left of the stroke_ of the rectangle, not the left of the geometrical rectangle.
If you set the overall bounding box to geometric, you align the _unclipped_ ellipse to the left side of the geometrical rectangle

Either way, there is no way to obtain what you want.

Personally, I would find very natural for the bounding box of a clipped object to always correspond to the clipping shape, and never to the unclipped original object; however, I do understand that the matter is debatable, and other user can have a different opinion. An option (independent from the global one) that sets how to treat clipped objects' bounding box would solve the issue...

Thanks

Giacomo