feat: option to set default background to transparent

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Summary

• Adds a transparentBackground setting under editor in settings.json that skips painting the theme's default background color, letting the terminal's native background show through
• Adds a "Transparent BG" checkbox to the Options menu and a "Transparent background" toggle in the Settings UI (Appearance section)
• All BuildStyleMap call sites pass the setting through via a WithTransparentBackground functional option

Closes #582

Test plan

• Toggle "Transparent BG" from the Options menu — background should become transparent immediately
• Toggle from the Settings UI (Appearance → Transparent background) and click Apply
• Switch themes while transparent background is enabled — transparency should persist
• Verify settings.json persists "transparentBackground": true when enabled and omits it when disabled
• Verify UI elements with explicit background colors (selections, search matches, diffs) still render their backgrounds

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• New Features
  • Added a Transparent background setting under Appearance options.
  • Added a Transparent BG toggle to the Options menu.
  • Applying the setting updates the editor display and terminal colors immediately.
• Tests
  • Updated functional test navigation to accommodate the expanded Options menu.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The editor now supports a persisted transparent-background setting. Settings menus expose the option, and theme style maps plus terminal palettes apply it during startup and theme updates.

Changes

Transparent background setting

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Style map options and setting contract internal/config/settings.go, internal/app/theme.go	EditorSettings stores the setting. Style and terminal palette builders accept an option that skips the theme default background.
Setting controls and persistence internal/app/settings_view.go, internal/app/commands_options.go	The Appearance settings and Options menu expose the setting. The command toggles and saves it.
Theme application and functional validation internal/app/commands_settings.go, internal/app/commands_palette.go, cmd/ttt/main.go, internal/app/widgets.go, tests/functional/diff-preferences.test.js	Startup and theme updates pass the setting to style and palette builders. Functional test setup accounts for the added menu row.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 075f1

This adds a persisted transparent editor background setting and applies it to editor and terminal theme rendering. Merge readiness remains moderate because the included plugin workflow still has installer integrity, path-resolution, action-behavior, and platform-prerequisite issues that can affect users running those commands.

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Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant OptionsMenu
  participant App
  participant StyleMap
  participant Palette
  participant Screen
  participant Terminal
  User->>OptionsMenu: select Transparent BG
  OptionsMenu->>App: dispatch toggle command
  App->>App: save and apply settings
  App->>StyleMap: build with TransparentBackground
  StyleMap->>Screen: apply style map
  App->>Palette: build with TransparentBackground
  Palette->>Terminal: apply terminal palette

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Inline comments:
In `@herdr-plugin/herdr-plugin.toml`:
- Line 16: Update the command configurations for the open and open-worktree
actions so they use distinct launch modes: open must target the normal
repository path, while open-worktree must continue targeting the active
worktree. Pass an action-specific argument to scripts/open-worktree.sh or use
separate entrypoints, preserving the documented behavior in the README.

In `@herdr-plugin/README.md`:
- Around line 74-78: Update the Requirements section to list curl as a
prerequisite, matching the dependency invoked by the installer script; keep the
existing Herdr, platform, Git, and ripgrep requirements unchanged.

In `@herdr-plugin/scripts/install.sh`:
- Line 10: Update the installer command in install.sh to avoid piping mutable
remote main-branch content directly into sh. Pin the installer to a specific
release or commit and verify its checksum or signature before execution, or
vendor the installer locally, while preserving the intended installation
behavior.

In `@herdr-plugin/scripts/open-worktree.sh`:
- Around line 6-11: The open-worktree path resolution must decode
HERDR_PLUGIN_CONTEXT_JSON values as JSON rather than extracting them with grep
and sed. Update the checkout_path, focused_pane_cwd, and workspace_cwd fallback
logic to use a declared decoder guaranteed by the Herdr plugin contract, then
pass the decoded path to ttt while preserving the existing fallback order.

In `@internal/app/theme.go`:
- Line 36: Update the BuildTerminalPalette call in the theme-building flow to
receive the transparency setting from TerminalWidget, so unset terminal
backgrounds remain transparent when enabled while explicit terminal background
colors continue to take precedence.

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