Yet another bug. This time filters vs selections

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Wednesday 09 September 2009, Dmitry Kazakov wrote:

> Ideally, we should free filters from doing this dirty work. Selections
> should be our internal routine... Ideally...
> Another question - how to implement it?

Historically, selections were part of a paint device. When we decided that 
that was a Bad Thing, it became necessary to pass selections to interested 
routines. The only way to make filters work without an explicit selection 
parameter is to copy the data before passing it to a filter and then blitting 
it back with the selection set on the painter. I don't think that's worth it: 
let's just fix the filters.

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