Consolidate background work into one job layer - #5002

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Add a job layer for long running work
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Move the remaining app and feature workflows onto the job layer
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Run the WinUtil interface on its own thread
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Move every long workflow onto the job layer
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Log from every WinUtil thread into one session file
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Document the threading model and the job layer
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Stop Invoke-WPFUIThread leaking the body's output to its caller
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Put every button that changes the system on the job layer
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Document button routing and the job banner
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Read function bodies from the FunctionInfo instead of the function provider
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Render the taskbar overlays after first paint
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Make a failed package fail the job
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Time every pipeline step and report the slowest ones
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Render the taskbar overlays on the main thread's runspace
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Cut startup to first interaction roughly in half
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Warm the unopened tabs while the interface is idle
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Report failures with the context needed to act on them
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Wire the Install tab controls where they are created
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Stop losing warnings and non-terminating errors from job bodies
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Drive winget through Microsoft.WinGet.Client for real progress
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Show the install phase as running instead of finished
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Say what a winget failure actually was
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Keep the run position in the progress text during a package
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Pulse the progress bar in place instead of filling it
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/main' into feat/async-architecture
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docs: follow the Write-WinUtilJobProgress rename in the architecture page
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fix: address the review findings on the job layer
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fix: address the remaining review findings
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fix: address the minor and nitpick review findings
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fix: startup crash and icons that only appeared once the list was drawn
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fix: address the second review pass
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