Ugly outline, also appears when pressing a key other than Tab

[Linerly]

Steps to reproduce

1. Press a key other than Tab (like Esc, Meta (Windows key), Shift, ...)
2. See an ugly yellow-white outline
   

Outcome

What did you expect?

Pressing keys other than Tab shouldn't show the outline, the outline should be like this, which isn't ugly:

…or like Discord's:

What happened instead?

The outline shows whenever I press a key other than Tab (e.g., when taking a screenshot using the shortcut Meta + Shift + PrtSc)

Operating system

Arch Linux

Application version

Element Nightly version: 2021112401 Olm version: 3.2.3

How did you install the app?

AUR

Homeserver

matrix.org

Will you send logs?

No

[t3chguy]

See an ugly yellow-white outline

This is your browser's (Element Desktop is Electron thus Chromium) accessibility outline ftr, in Firefox it looks very different

[SimonBrandner]

See an ugly yellow-white outline

This is your browser's (Element Desktop is Electron thus Chromium) accessibility outline ftr, in Firefox it looks very different

Yeah, though I believe there is a way to change the look of this since Discord has the blueish one on desktop

[t3chguy]

Yes we can definitely style it, I'm not saying we can't, just explaining what it is better than "ugly outline" - not that it isn't also that

[Penguin-Guru]

I think The Super/Meta/etc... button is particularly important to disconnect from this functionality. Convention on all platforms (I know of) has long considered this a system utility button, not to be used by applications. Therefore, a lot of common keyboard shortcuts use this button.

For what it's worth, I use Chromium as my normal web browser and this accessibility outline has never appeared when I press these buttons on my keyboard. It may be useful for some people, I don't know, but I definitely think it should disabled by default in the Element desktop client.

[HarHarLinks]

I don't really mind it, but

Convention on all platforms (I know of) has long considered this a system utility button, not to be used by applications. Therefore, a lot of common keyboard shortcuts use this button.

I agree with this, and want to point out that this behaviour might be confusing for users less familiar with the existence of such features.