Make it more obvious when Highlight mode is enabled

There have been too many times for me to count where all of a sudden I'm not seeing in the Color page viewer what I expect to see. I would move the offset balls & rings on my control surface and nothing would appear to change.

More often than not, this happens because I've inadvertently enabled Highlight mode on a node, and there's no qualifier or Window on it.

There is a "magic wand" icon in the Viewer toolbar that indicates that Highlight mode is enabled, but it's often difficult to notice it amongst all of the other UI elements. The white, enabled-state of the icon just blends in with other adjacent UI elements with that very same color/brightness level, such as the Viewer zoom level indicator, timeline name, Gallery view labels, etc.

I would like for there to be an option to enable these icons to have a color (perhaps user defined, but if not, something obnoxious, like RED), so that it's very clear that they have been enabled. Of course an argument could be made by purists that adding color to these elements is anathema to a proper grading UI, but I feel that the ship has long sailed on that argument, and the purists have clearly lost. There is, after all, an orange "loop" icon in the transport controls, Color coded cache state indicators on the timeline, colors in the Color Wheels panel, etc etc. And arguments against adding more color to such a small UI element aren't particularly convincing, given that you shouldn't even be using the desktop viewer to be making critical color judgements in the first place!

I feel like it might help to move the controls in the Viewer bar into the transport area. Then your eyes would have to scan less of the screen to get all the relevant information.

Honestly it makes more sense for those controls to be there than the "Onscreen control" menu. The OFX menu includes

Qualifier - just enables the color dropper. Using it creates a qualifier. Both are functions that you can do just as quickly by clicking the qualifier palette and it takes the same amount of clicks or less.

Power Window - doesn't show you anything unless there's already a power window created. You can do the same thing by just going to the Window palette.

Image Wipe - does the same things as clicking the image wipe button in the viewer bar.

Dust Removal - doesn't look like it does anything at first but right clicking the icon brings up options for Dirt and Dust Removal that only works on DPX files.

OpenFX Overlay - doesn't necessarily do anything unless certain OFX effects are applied to the current node.

Color Chart - opens the Color Chart controls.. which would also show up if you just selected the Color Chart palette. In fact, you still need to the palette to select a chart type and click Match.

Right next to it is the "Unmix" toggle which is definitely a view control.