Bug: Thick wires hide the ports and make hovering for the port tooltip impossible

[IAmMarcelJung]

We've previously talked about how the wire overlaps the port both visually and logically (so that the port tooltip is not shown while hovering over the overlap). This problem gets a bit worse if the wire width is increased. If It is set to the maximum, the port is completely covered by the wire and no information about the port can be obtained:

To solve this, changing the thickness of the wire should not change its length, so that at least half of the port is still visible and therefore hoverable and selectable. As also discussed before, it could be tried to let the wire end at 1/4 of the port instead of in the middle. I remember something like this was tried already but did not look good, but I can't remember exactly what was tried.

Maybe also somebody else has an idea what would be the best approach?

[IAmMarcelJung]

I just found out that letting the wire end at 1/4 might not be a good idea, since then the junction of two wires would look strange, since they would no longer overlap. Therefore the approach with preserving the wire length should be preferred.

[JakobTernes]

Im not really happy with the current solution for making wires appear thicker. I think of it as a temporary solution that might help with things like documentation.
As a proper solution, I would suggest that highlighted wires are simply rendered thicker at larger distance, but look like normal wires at closer inspection (where no additional thickness should be needed anyways).

[IAmMarcelJung]

This sounds awesome! I would prefer this greatly over the manual approach if it works nicely! 😃 However it sounds more complicated to implement, but I cannot judge this since I'm not familiar with those things.