Why would you want to remove Clipview after putting on a shadow?
I agree that the situation described above is unusual - the steps I provided where to illustrate the bug, rather than to illustrate normal workflow.

The real situation was that I was given a file to update, which included a clipview object. I tried to remove the clipview, so that I could use the bounding shape, but Xara wouldn't let me remove it. No error message or explanation, just no option to remove the clipview.

The reason: the clipview object had a tiny shadow, which was 99% transparent, so took me quite some time to discover!

Sure, this isn't a common scenario, but it was rather frustrating when it did occur.

Ampa