The current handles are hiding too much of the strip so it becomes difficult to locate the exact spot for ex. waveforms or display hold/hard splits, also currently there isn't any indication of direction of the selected. Both things can be improved by changing the handle shape to square brackets.
A vote on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tintwotin/status/1356894741011562499
Brackets(new): 29 votes.
Rectangles(current): 3 votes.
[EDIT: The outlines were colliding visually with the bracket handles, and it didn't work for me. I've now changed it, so with a handle selected, the stip will not get an outline. This will focus the attention on the handle. Additionally I removed color variations of selected and active states and made them consistent with the colors of the 3d view in a similar situation.]
Selection etc.:
{F9862939, size=full}
Small strip, small handle:
{F9769018,{F9862944, size=full}
Minor changes:
- Ensure the handles are visible if the strips are very small.
- Lower the limit where it is still possible to select handles. Currently, it is annoying not being able to select handles even though there is plenty of space to select between left, right and center. Also, it works fine with a lower value.
- Remove the highlight of outlines when transforming, it is not necessary.
- Made brackets smaller(but still much larger than a vertex ;-) ).
- Fixed some calculation mistakes.
- Made texts visible to a tiny size, since, text highlighting is the only way to see the unselected active strip.
If this one is committed, this other one can be closed:
https://developer.blender.org/D10317