Hard to find an "inspectable" widget when in widget selection mode

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#7,762 opened on May 15, 2024 4 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

inspector-2.0-polish P2 screen: inspector usability

Description

When widget selection mode is on, it is hard to figure out where to click to actually "select" a widget.

![hard to find something to select](https://github.com/flutter/devtools/assets/21270878/0bf6785a-d7d9-4932-8925-fef9233c0ff8)

This could be made easier if bounding boxes were shown on hover, similarly to what Chrome Devtools does:

![chrome inspecting 2](https://github.com/flutter/devtools/assets/21270878/5295f3e8-6b0f-4e02-b82a-66b49cef1c7c)

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