Show a loading indicator while a theme activates - #25993
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Activating from the theme grid gave no feedback because the spinner was only attached to the preview screen's Activate bar button, which does not exist in that flow. The browser now tracks the activating theme and the grid cell replaces its "..." button with a spinner while the request runs. The state lives in the view controller so it survives cell reuse and reloads, and a second activation is ignored while one is in flight.
The spinner replacing the Activate bar button was forced to white, which is invisible on the preview's light navigation bar. Use the default color instead.
It only popped the theme browser, which the back button already does.
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Fixes (kinda) https://linear.app/a8c/issue/CMM-2366. The "Manage site" action only dismisses the theme view controller, which I think is unnecessary. So, I removed it in this PR.
The PR fixes another issue: On the theme browser, tap the "..." button on a theme, tap "Activate", and wait. Nothing changes on screen until the "Theme Activated" alert shows up. Activating from the theme preview screen has the same problem, because the spinner replacing the "Activate" bar button is white on a white navigation bar.
The grid cell now replaces its "..." button with a spinner while the theme is being activated, and the preview bar button spinner uses the default color.
theme-activation.MP4