Voted +1

I like this... Think it should be a global selection thing though.... ie, a dropdown menue with these choices...

• colored bottom only
• colored edge surrounding strip
• colored strip

Then, this kind of choice can be applied to all future templates!
 
At this point I don't know which of the three I like best... the lady photoshopping the edge around the strip... I liked that at first but....it really is an "individual preference" thing...

I have also had that thought - the colored strips really helped navigate - although the new theme is pretty I'm finding I have to either read a lot of text in large projects.. It would be beautiful if we could use the plthora of new suave colors in the pre tungsten fashion... amalgamate the concepts.  

Vastman
I like this... Think it should be a global selection thing though.... ie, a dropdown menue with these choices...

• colored bottom only
• colored edge surrounding strip
• colored strip

Then, this kind of choice can be applied to all future templates!
...

This. +1 for sure. 

That looks great!

I like this idea.
 
It would be nice if you could "fade in" the amount of colourization.  That way everyone could be happy...

VariousArtist
I like this idea.
 
It would be nice if you could "fade in" the amount of colourization.  That way everyone could be happy...

Definitely. Chose your shade.

subtlearts

Vastman
I like this... Think it should be a global selection thing though.... ie, a dropdown menue with these choices...

• colored bottom only
• colored edge surrounding strip
• colored strip

Then, this kind of choice can be applied to all future templates!
...

This. +1 for sure. 

I've come to really like the Tungsten look and now have adapted my eye to just using the colors at the bottom of the strip.  So now I like that approach.  But the request at the top here seems really well suggested and demonstrated.  I concur that having a choice would be excellent.  As Vastman has indicated, if we could select what we want we could then pick what's best for our individual taste.

That looks pretty slick...nicely done! I too am all for some customization options for saturation, selecting which components inherit the track color, etc.

Definitely welcome the OPs strip-color idea! Although the bright orange buttons of Tungsten are distracting to me, and very Halloween, I can get past those if the strips can be colored like this.