Fourteen themes was too many to keep under an avatar next to "Sign out" — that is where
a preference goes when nobody has decided it matters. It now has its own button in the
header, between the controls and the avatar, grouped by family.
── The keys, ported from the owner's vimazing ──
ctrl+shift+l / ctrl+shift+h cycle forward / back, from anywhere, no UI
ctrl+alt+space open the list
j / k move the focus
l or space apply the focused theme to the app BEHIND the list
h back to where you started
enter keep what you are looking at
escape restore and close
The browse is the point, and it is why the overlay is a portal over a 55% backdrop
rather than a modal: you are not reading names, you are watching the application change.
The theme you started on is captured when the list opens, so `h` and `escape` undo a
whole browse however many previews happened inside it.
Typing is still typing: the list ignores j/k/l/h while focus is in an input, textarea,
select or anything contenteditable.
── Where it lives ──
The key handling is in the theme package — it is behaviour that belongs to themes, and
it needs no UI. The list and the button are Officer's, because a dialog would drag a
component library into a package that currently has none.
Verified by driving the real keyboard in a browser:
start duck-dark · ctrl+shift+l -> plain · ctrl+alt+space -> overlay
j, l -> tokyo-night (previewed) · escape -> plain, closed
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5
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