the focus indicator is extremely ugly

[Kommynct]

Your use case

I would like to either disable it, or make the focus indicator change based on the element that is in focus, instead of it being global the focus should be per-selector, for example, a better focus indicator for rooms would be highlighting the background (like when you hover), almost globally the hover indicator would look better

[t3chguy]

@gsouquet are Compound elements having focus indicators designed for them?

[germain-gg]

Yes. We have focus indicators for all elements in Compound.

I appreciate that the current design might not be to your taste but it is very unlikely we will provide an option to disable focus highlighting.

make the focus indicator change based on the element that is in focus

Could you elaborate on the above, I believe this is already the case as elements have an orange outline to hint their focused state.

a better focus indicator for rooms would be highlighting the background

Unfortunately only changing the background will not meet accessibility requirements https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Understanding/use-of-color.html

[Kommynct]

Ahh, didn't think of accessibility requirements, I don't want them disabled, I just thought they could be better integrated into the UI, but if it'll cause accessibility issues, I understand, i'm going to give a few examples of looking wonky though:

Around your avatar, it should be a circle if the avatars are circular:

and when there's an expand button it doesn't properly surround it:

[germain-gg]

I fully agree with you on the examples shown above. It looks subpar and should be treated as defect and fixed to have a more aesthetically pleasing output.