Then how about coloring the content area of the strip in two different colors for missing data-block and missing file?
Some images from Google. Looking at these, the Final Cut way actually makes most sense to me, since it is coloring the content area of the strip red. And that makes sense since it is the content…
IMO, should all strips have the same kind of missing media indication.
Should they? To me it sounds like these are separate and different problems. E.g. a scene strip missing a scene…
This was how it used to look when source media was missing in Scene strips:
This is how it is looking in 4.0: 
Seems, that handle size is sometimes drawn as 5px, sometimes as 4px. Will rebase this patch and check how this can be resolved. In meanwhile, will just increase handle width so I don't mix fixes…
Now every strip gets copied either fully or partially besides scene strips.
Scene strips are currently the only strip type with a "missing media" indication, with a red line on top of the…
Yes, missing icons shouldn't be a showstopper. There are a few:
One thing to consider is if it is a bit redundant with repeating the…
This happens also with audio only Sound strips. The duration and the content of the copied strips is wrong.
For consistency with ex. 3D View, consider adding icons to the Add menu.
Btw. when I did that reworked version of space_nla.py I also did a write-up with some images with ex. improvements(for…
As noted above, when selecting/transforming two adjoined handles, the selected handle on one of the sides is not visible(looks like the outline). https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/atta…
Looking at the UI
Old:
New: If the below-mentioned changes in the Retiming menu was implemented, it could look like this: ![image]…
When pip uninstalls a python module, it renames the first letter of the folder to ~ and if the module is installed at a later point in time it'll install this instead of a fresh download. And from…
Great to see the very limited text strip options being addressed. This is something I've tried to work around for many years in add-ons.
Consider adding mock-ups of the UI early, since many…