Related to #101285

You could try setting notebook.focusedCellShadow to #0000 and seeing if that feels better.

@misolori yes better. I really think we should not have this shadow by default, just see how bad it looks on the edge to the sidebar:

Can we consider this for June?

Compare with inline editors that have no shadow:

This one is tough because the drop shadow is a common trait in other notebooks (collab, nteract, etc.) and it seems like this comes down to personal preference. We do have some themes that hide shadows altogether, and we've re-used that token here to respect that.

One thing we could add is a slight border to the top and bottom of the cell like in the case where shadows are hidden:

This one is tough because the drop shadow is a common trait in other notebooks (collab, nteract, etc.) and it seems like this comes down to personal preference

@misolori If in doubt I would go for a consistent design language here and not use shadows to indicate focus. We indicate focus via blue outline everywhere in the UI, so I do not understand why the shadows are used only for notebooks. Imho that is inconsistent design language we should avoid.

@bpasero we removed the shadow for the active cell:

Love it 👍