[OSM-talk] New mappaint version 5024 - now with a "fill area opacity" preference

[Karl Eichwalder]

>> After some user demand to set the transparency of filled areas, I've
>> just committed a new mappaint version 5024.
>
> that's a phantastic hack. As I created boundaries like
> landuse=residential around the places I map, I always removed this tag
> during editing and reapplied it afterwards. The same for parks etc.

This sounds dangerous...  I set

    mappaint.fillareas	false

and problem solved :)