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Status bar shows no signal that the server / dataflow is still computing after a state_change #813

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After the user changes search / cleaning / post-processing, the status bar gives no indication whether the resulting grid state is "computed and final" or "still in flight". On a slow backend (xorq @ ~7s per state_change against the boston-restaurant dataset, polars @ ~600ms even with warm caches), this means an empty grid is ambiguous between two very different outcomes:

  • The filter returned zero rows.
  • The filter is still being computed.

Visible failure mode: user types something, sees an empty grid for a long time, can't tell if the server is hung or just genuinely returned nothing. Their next move is usually to refresh the page (which clears any in-flight work) or click X (which re-fires the cycle).

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Most acute in server mode (slow xorq backends), but also relevant to the widget in any deployment where the dataflow cascade takes more than a few hundred ms — large pandas frames, polars on slow disks, etc. The widget is currently silent in both contexts.

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