Re: [Gimp-developer] What is the purpose of the checkerboard pattern in the color history buttons?

[Ofnuts <ofnuts laposte net>]

On 11/16/2013 10:56 PM, Michael Natterer wrote:
> On Sat, 2013-11-16 at 22:05 +0100, Ofnuts wrote:
> > In the color history of the FG/BG color selector dialog, the buttons may
> > appear split in two along a diagonal with the color on top left and a
> > checkerboard pattern on the bottom right. This happens when the color is
> > obtained using the color picker button in the same dialog. However I
> > can't figure out what this display is indicating. The checkerboard
> > pattern would normally hint at some alpha/transparency value, but the
> > color displayed has no alpha channel?
> Because it was broken :)
>
> Just fixed it in master and gimp-2-8:

Darn... I though there was a clever trick afoot :)