Select by color tool - partially select transparent areas
Submitted by Nick Smith
Link to original bug (#332133)
Description
As does the ellipse tool partially selecting a pixel, the select-by-color tool should partially select a pixel when the pixel is transparent. I tried doing this with a text layer, but when I bucket fill to apply an effect to it, the text loses its antialiasing no matter how I do it (it makes no difference if "anti-aliasing" is checked or not or if "select transparent areas" is as well in the select-by-color tool's options) and the only way to currently get the text to be antialiased with the effect is to use a very large size of nonanti-aliased text and scale it down after applying the effect and this doesn't look as good as the fully anti-aliased text.
Version: 2.2.x