The column on the left of the screenshots with the channel numbers looks very dark now, does that need another theme change, or is it actually consistent to elsewhere and just looking weird to me?

In D13072#345121, @Hans Goudey (HooglyBoogly) wrote:

The column on the left of the screenshots with the channel numbers looks very dark now, does that need another theme change, or is it actually consistent to elsewhere and just looking weird to me?

That is actually the "out of frame range" area (before start frame, after end frame).

It's hardcoded to be a -25 shade of TH_BACK, which seems much but (before this patch) made sense since the editor backdrop itself was offset -25 (and was semi transparent).
It was basically applying an offset for the already-offset background color.

Since this patch makes the backdrop use the pure TH_BACK color from the theme without offsets, I think we can tone the out of frame range down to prevent it going too dark.

The following screenshot changes the out of frame range to be -10, seems to be a good sweet spot:

Much better! Thanks for the explanation.

Existing files seem to have weird color, I need to load factory defaults for this patch to look as intended. Unless this weird look is intended, which I wouldn't dispute, but I like daker one much better.

Otherwise seems fine.

This patch is part of a number of fixes to the default theme (other tweaks in D13087). Once approved, I plan to do the versioning to update it all at once so we avoid upping the file subversion twice.