Re: Character limit on search entry

[Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>]

On 16 May 2017 at 08:56, Robert Ancell <robert ancell gmail com> wrote:
> I'm looking to add a character limit to the search entry.

Seems a good idea to me.

> I was going to suggest a limit of 200 characters - does that sound wrong to
> anyone? I expect real searches are probably < 100 characters, but I doubled
> that to be safe.

I think that even 100 chars is fine.

> Unfortunately GTK+ still emits the changed signal even when the limit is
> set. So the change might need to diff the last search value against the new
> one to decide if it should be sent. Or should we depend on a new GTK+ for
> this? I guess that would require the change to go to a stable release.

I guess change master to depend on the latest gtk, and if we need it
backporting do the search comparison locally for stable.

Richard.