Yet another bug. This time filters vs selections

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Tuesday 15 September 2009, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> Dmitry Kazakov wrote:
> > Again. That is a binary transparency iteration that is not good itself.
> > We need a full-featured transparency with 256 levels of transparency.
> 
> At risk of a dumb question, something I am wondering from this and the
> other recent thread (embedded transparency)... why 256 levels? That's
> fine for 8-bits/channel color spaces, but will selection and masks never
> support 16-bit?

256 levels is enough for everyone! But seriously, never say never -- but 8 bit 
masks is what we have now, and that implemenation detail returns everywhere, 
unfortunately.

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