macOS 26 Terminal: Powerline fonts, UI, dynamic theme?

dg020 wrote:

Now pay attention to the MenuBar width its to narrow from what you see on the WWDC screenshot

like pay attention on the left Side red circle close button and you we notice the difference immediately

I don't know what you mean about the MenuBar width at all.

Otherwise, I think you're just reading too much into WWDC mockups. Nothing in WWDC is real you know. The screenshots, the videos, the mockups, the APIs, the tutorials - all of it. It's Photoshop and Sketch. They try hard to make the final product as similar as they can, but it's never exact.

as you see on the screenshot there was Basic profile what's grate thing about the the basic profile is that its totally dynamic like it's change the terminal color scheme based on the user device theme setting (Light/Dark)

and my question is that I want to use that Clear Light / Clear Dark new profile but its not dynamic.

so what can I do to make it dynamic just like how basic profile behave.

Again, I think you're just misinterpreting things. These are two new themes. They're not supposed to be dynamic. All of the "dynamic" stuff is just transitional. Apple pioneered the use of a white background with black text like the printed page whereas PCs were always inverted with bright, multicoloured text against a dark background.

But all those people who built that first Mac retired years ago. The PC people colonized and took over Apple. That's why all the "Liquid Glass" stuff looks so bad in light mode. It's not an accident.

the third thing is that I get news about power line font supported from this new article

macOS 26 includes the first Terminal app redesign in decades | Macworld

and its basically render custom prompt properly talking about the zsh prompt so my question was that they have included any power line font built in or user have to installed it I think its simmer to nerd font but I am not sure.

and I think In that WWDC photo they are using Oh My Zsh or something else I am not sure.

Perhaps this is just an attempt to get some of the Mac IT crowd to notice that we've been using zsh for about a decade now. Those folks still tend to use bash and don't know that the Mac version of bash hasn't been updated in 20 years.

It's nice to get a question about Terminal. But don't get excited. It's still Terminal.

I don't know about the Terminal improvements, but what you see in the top left window, btop, is a utility that you can install free. I just installed it from source, following the instructions here:

https://www.tecmint.com/btop-system-monitoring-tool-for-linux/

While the site apparently is geared towards Linux, the build instructions worked precisely on my mac.

dg020 wrote:

Whether the terminal update has already been released

Yes.

They mention about Powerline font support built in but where is it which font should I use?

That seems to be something entirely different. It's talking about the Powerline plugin for VIM. This plugin requires special fonts. I believe these are the areas were you see Powerline being used:

why my terminal looks totally different from pic I shared like not about the theme but the menu bar round corner and padding

I don't know what your Terminal looks like so I can't comment on that. I don't know what you mean about "menu bar round corner and padding". My Terminal looks pretty much like the screenshot, except for not using dark mode or vim.

how can make this new theme Clear Dark / Clear Light dynamic like how basic profile is changing bg color based on the device prefrence

I don't understand what you're asking. Those are just two new profiles with minor changes from existing ones.

If not released, whether there is an updated timeline or status

It is already released, but Apple never provides timelines or status. You get what you get when you get it.

If there are developer notes, documentation links, or beta features I should be aware of, please point me to them.

None of that exists for Terminal. Terminal is an unimportant tool on an unimportant platform. Somebody at Apple got funding to add Liquid Glass support. It took them 5 minutes to add those "Liquid Glass inspired" themes, so they went ahead and improved colour support and made some other internal improvements that were required for Powerline support. I can understand the improved colour support. That's been lacking for a long, long time. I had never heard of Powerline until you mentioned it, so that must be one person's pet peeve.

Another place you could ask about this is

https://apple.stackexchange.com/

Perhaps this is just an attempt to get some of the Mac IT crowd to notice that we've been using zsh for about a decade now. Those folks still tend to use bash and don't know that the Mac version of bash hasn't been updated in 20 years.

Hey‼️ I resemble that remark 😀.

But I also use a current bash version on my Mac(s). I started manually upgrading my bash version in the early 2000’s

I’ve stuck with bash because of the systems I ssh into, and the bash scripts I write at work. The same .bash_profile & .bashrc, and scripts on all systems make things easier and more consistent.

Whether in years past using the various UNIX terminal implementations, I have strived to keep the interface functional to my uncluttered and visual preferences. I do not add any shell package managers that are available in Fish or Zsh shells.

My Tahoe 26.2.1 Terminal Zsh (or Bash) prompt using the SF Mono Medium 18 pt font, and the Terminal colors set with the /usr/bin/tput commands for decimal colors (e.g. Green="$(${TPUT} bold; ${TPUT} setaf 42)")

No other clutter is needed, in my opinion.

BobHarris wrote:

Hey‼️ I resemble that remark 😀.

You're not the one I'm worried about. 😄

But you might be able to say if my guess about the "Powerline" stuff is correct. Even through I'm a very heavy Terminal user, I don't use any fancy features like pretty colours and fonts. I don't see the point in any of that stuff. I can see why Apple would give Terminal some attention during the Eye Candy release.

Tom Gewecke wrote:

Another place you could ask about this is

https://apple.stackexchange.com/

You could ask...but would you get a reply?

Apparently Stack Overflow is suffering from wwdeath to an even greater extreme than other sites like this one. Here's a lifetime chart of questions per month:

and a link to the query.

I think the command prompt is from "Oh My ZSH!"

https://ohmyz.sh/

This the most I could find on the situation:

Installing and configuring Powerline-style command line tools for developers (OSX)

https://gist.github.com/DucNgn/9312a65e1535b3b1bffd9fed2c892079

I use htop instead. 😉