fix: Alpha respected by polygon lines #385
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Many geoms only partially support alpha in the sense that their borders are always at alpha=1.
This fixes this for anything using geom_polygon plus geom_boxplot.
Example:
This is a 'minimal' change that makes alpha work on both the fill and the lines.
Doing it this way gives the user the option to draw the lines at alpha = 1 by repeating the geom with fill=None, increasing the number of possible plots.
The other option would have been to introduce 'color_alpha' at every geom where you'd consider it (since the color comes from... color ;)).
ggplot2 bug tracker suggests they fixed alpha to affect both at one point: tidyverse/ggplot2#1371 but this seems to have regressed?
Anyhow, this patch enables me to draw graphs like this (note the subtle glow):