[idea] Dedicated background and border colours for terminal popups #3368
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Idea / problem
Terminal popups currently use
panel_bgonly for their outer shell. Their PTY interior falls back to the normal terminal background, while the popup border uses globalaccent.This makes popups blend into ordinary panes and couples their border styling to unrelated accent UI.
Requested change
Add two optional popup-specific theme tokens with these fallbacks:
When unset, existing Themes remain compatible through the
panel_bgandaccentfallbacks.This should apply to
[[keys.command]] type = "popup"and equivalent plugin popup placements.Illustrative configuration:
Why
The fallback chain preserves the existing Theme model while allowing popups to form a distinct visual layer when a Theme needs it. It also separates popup borders from Herdr’s global navigation, pane-border, highlight, and selection accent.
If this direction fits, I’m happy to help test or prepare a focused PR after approval.
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