Status on long queries

[knoxfighter]

When uplaoding multiple mods (feature pending), loading mods from save, updating all mods, it would hlp alot to see the current status in any way. Therefore it would help to know that it still is doing something and approximately how long it will take.

[Squelch]

I have a pending issue that I was trying to format and word correctly for this exact issue.
Get out of my head!

I managed to corrupt my installation by prematurely launching the game server before some file operations had finished. This happened because the progress indicator (spinning wheel) is not persistent during file operations, so if the user navigates away from the page that initiated the file operation to another, and then returns, the indicator is gone, and I assumed it had finished. Inspection of the logs showed multiple lock file errors, but I couldn't tell which files they related to. Mod version mismatch seemed to be the ultimate error, and could not be resolved without a complete reinstall.

An interlock to prevent launching the game server until server manager had finished would also be useful here. A simple, BUSY/ READY indicator would suffice.

Further elaboration of this bug:
During a mod update that contains large dependencies (graphics packs) this process may be slow to complete. Due to how #393 manifests itself, these dependencies are required, but the current logic does not parse the (~) tilde flag for non mandatory load order and subsequently ignores the file as a dependency. Launching the game server early seems to desynchronise the simple mod list and mod-list.json leaving incorrect mod file versions present, but the interface shows the current and up to date version with no updates available. I was unable to find how to rebuild the simple mod list.