Site Setup Replication needs better UI/UX

[reggie7]

When an author presses site setup replication there is not enough visual indication of what's actually going on. The process might take a while and the only thing that happens is that the page gets a bit gray. It's not even disabled from interaction. When I come back to it after e.g. switching tabs I have no idea whether the process succeeded or failed. I don't even know whether it has finished.

Branch: develop-sling12

Steps to Reproduce

1. Grab a new peregrine instance with e.g. themeclean-flex theme installed.
2. Create new website A.
3. Invoke Site Setup Replication.

Expected Result: The page buttons are not interactive. There is a clear indication of what is currently happening.
Actual Result: The page is grayed. The buttons are active.

Analysis

Maybe we should see a list of resources being currently processed. Maybe a kind of console updating in real time. Or maybe simply a spinner or progress bar? And the result has to be shown for the user after they switch context.

[reggie7]

It's in progress:
It's gray, but one could easily think it's the default look'n'feel. And we have no idea what is going on.

[ehdatheadwire]

Closing OG issue and relocating to: peregrine-cms/enhancements#24