[adnan-bhaldar]

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What does this change?

Adds a refresh arrow to the "Check now" button (About) and the "Check again" button (Engines). The arrow turns while the check runs, which looks more professional and shows the app is working. With Reduce animations on (or the system asking for reduced motion) it does not spin and the result is not held back.

The turning is done in code (src/Filee.App/Controls/Spin.cs, an attached property Spin.IsActive), not with a XAML style in Soft.axaml. I first wrote it as a Style.Animations rule for PathIcon.check-arrow.spinning in Soft.axaml. With that rule present, the dropdown chevron on every ComboBox stopped flipping when opened, even though the rule only matches the check arrow. Removing the rule fixed the chevron, and simplifying its selector did not. I don't know the exact reason, so the animation is kept out of the shared styles. Spin.cs sits in Controls because that folder holds Filee's own controls and helpers, and Soft.axaml is for Avalonia's own controls and is shared with the installer.

Type of change

• Bug fix
• New feature or improvement
• New format or engine
• Translation
• Documentation
• Build, CI or dependencies

How was it tested?

• dotnet format --verify-no-changes
• dotnet test
• Tried it in the app (what you converted or clicked, and on which OS): clicked Check now on the About page and Check again on the Engines page on Windows. The arrow turns while checking and stops when done. With Reduce animations on it stays still.

Screenshots (UI changes)

None: the change is an animation, which a still image can't show.

Checklist

• New UI strings are in all src/Filee.App/Assets/i18n/*.json files (no new strings)
• New third-party code or binaries are listed in THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md (none added)
• The PR does one thing (unrelated changes go in a separate PR)

[adnan-bhaldar]

CI failed on one unrelated test: BrowserDropTests.Other_text_does_not_offer_files_to_the_donut
("ordinary text"), with "AppHost not built". The build succeeded and the tests for the
About and Engines pages passed. It looks like a flaky start-up ordering problem. Could
you re-run the failed jobs? Happy to push a new commit instead if you prefer.

[KnifeLemon]

Thanks, @adnan-bhaldar. The turning arrow is a nice touch, and the details are right:

• it doesn't turn with Reduce animations on, and then the result isn't held back either;
• the minimum turn of 900 ms keeps a quick check from looking like nothing happened.

Keeping it out of Soft.axaml after the ComboBox chevron problem is the safe choice, and the comment says why.

Two small changes before merging:

1. One DetachedFromVisualTree handler per start

Spin.Start adds control.DetachedFromVisualTree += (_, _) => Stop(control); every time the arrow starts, and nothing removes it. Each click of Check now or Check again leaves one more handler on the icon. Stop is safe to call twice, so nothing breaks, but the handlers pile up for as long as the page lives.

Keep the handler in State and add it once (or remove it in Stop). For example: subscribe when the State is created, and only start or stop the timer after that.

2. The ToggleSwitch change isn't part of this PR

Soft.axaml also removes the scale(1.02) hover on Material You's ToggleSwitch. The reason in the comment makes sense: the label is part of the control, so the text grew with it. But it's a separate change from the arrow, and the PR body doesn't mention it. Please either:

• move it to its own small PR, or
• add a line about it to this PR's description,

so it shows up in the history for what it is.

CI

The Linux jobs failed in BrowserDropTests ("AppHost not built"), which this PR doesn't touch. I've re-run them.