https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=422905

--- Comment #5 from Vitamorus <[email protected]> ---
I'm not sure I would like the selection to outline only appear around 100% or
>50% opaque pixels while more is being selected. It seems even more confusing
to me. The border of the selection is a useful indication of what pixels are
being considered.

Imagine a case where a user has a layer full of only semi-transparent pixels,
like an occlusion shadow pass or some subtle glow effects. If they used the
"select opaque" action, chances are nothing would show and they might think the
feature is broken. I've also personally used this feature to detect some stray
patches of very transparent pixels that I wanted to erase.

> Maybe instead an option to make the selection binary (fully select all 
> partially selected pixels, or fully deselect them) would help with Tyson's 
> usecase?

This was sort of what I was getting at with the "Select transparent" idea,
which would only select 100% transparent pixels and could be inverted to select
every non-transparent pixel fully and thus cover all the bases. A
checkbox/dialog for "preserve transparency" would also work. Another convoluted
solution would be to make the selection outline also render a discrete
screentone gradient that corresponds to the transparency of the selection, i
suppose?

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