[xaferima]

A theme that reads as a Linux terminal: the text is the interface. Every app is one line of monospace text, the dock title is a shell prompt of two lines, and the whole screen is phosphor red on pure black.

What it adds

Six keys, read from a theme's config.json only, each off by default, so a launcher nobody themes is unchanged:

Key	Effect
terminal_text	Every tile is one line of monospace text over black, its name left-aligned inside the same box, with > in front of the focused row. No icon, no banner
terminal_prompt	The dock title read as a shell prompt: a blinking block cursor behind the name, └─# in front of it as it types
terminal_typing	With it, the name types itself out one character at a time
terminal_host, terminal_path	The host and directory the context line names: ┌─(root@hacker-kali)-[/home/]
terminal_color	The colour of all of it: tiles, prompt, clock, date, greeting and focus ring. #FF3B30, phosphor red, when any other terminal_* key is on

The colour, the > marker and the cursor live in TerminalPrompt, a pure class covered by its own tests. AppAdapter gains one branch that draws a row. MainActivity tints the header and moves the accent onto the glass.

Two things worth calling out, because they reach beyond the theme:

• The monospace face is fonts.xml pointing the five font_* strings at the system monospace family. There is no theme key for typography (the fonts are resources, resolved at inflate time), so a theme cannot ship a font, and the whole launcher becomes mono rather than just this look. values-vi is untouched (Outfit is missing 96 Vietnamese letters, so vi strings render in mixed fonts #833), as its own comment says it must be.
• activity_main.xml swaps the shelf's two TextViews, so the context line sits above the command line. That also puts the cinematic shelf's "Last opened" line above the app name for every theme, terminal or not. Accepted as part of the look, not left silent.

Why the tiles do not change size

terminal_text draws inside the tile box it already has: no banner, no icon, the label moved into the card and left-aligned. The tile keeps its 180x101 dp box, so tileWidthPx, TITLE_ROOM_DP and therefore TileFitTest, GridNavigationTest and DockSlotsTest are untouched.

The shelf's focus code also does not zoom or lift a text row: with reduced_motion or not, a row just lights up and the > moves, so there is nothing scheduled on the weak-GPU path.

The theme

themes/terminal-hacker/ is the look above, generic: no pinned dock, no personal apps, no pictures, black only. Count bumped 28 → 29 in the seven front pages that state it.

Verified

• TV: Indurama Google TV 4K (KTC hongkong, MediaTek m7632, Google TV 14, SDK 34)
• ./gradlew test — 325 JUnit, 0 failures
• assembleRelease — 530,865 B, under CI's 589,824 B
• python3 -m unittest discover -s tests — 3191 tests, 0 failures (was 12 failures on my working branch before this)
• Every image in docs/switches/ and the theme's screenshot.jpg come from that TV

Two notes for review

1. clock_format is a documented theme key, but Config.java reads it through CLOCK_FORMAT_KEY rather than the literal, so test_shipped_config_keys_are_read.py cannot see the read and treats any theme that sets it as a dropped key. I left the code alone and left the key out of this theme rather than widen the PR; the read is real, only its shape hides it. Worth a separate look.
2. terminal_host and terminal_path share one screenshot with terminal_color for now, because the TV was captured running a personal config that names the host. They should be re-shot from this generic theme (the default hacker-kali) before merging; I will do it as soon as the TV is back on.

[github-actions]

maintainer-bot review · this one needs a maintainer decision

Thanks for the PR! Couldn't review this one automatically; it goes to the maintainer.

Checks

• Note: possibly collides with Launcher: Japanese (values-ja), every translatable string #3040, Launcher: persist wallpaper and overlay to internal storage to eliminate boot timing race #3317 (the same lines of Config.java, README.de.md, README.tr.md; whichever merges second needs a rebase)
• Launcher: 453 lines changed in launcher/ (tests not counted)
• OK: no new permission, no network use
• Size: size/L (+551 -68, 24 files)

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