Character limit does not respect selected services

Huh, strange. A few weeks ago friends-app didn't do any length checking at all ;-) I'm not sure when this creeped in.

I removed the counter in my new-postview branch. Have to check if it is resolved there (at least on the Conversation page).

Mh what would be the desired way to do this?

The EntryField now has a property for the maximum message length. Ideally, this should come from qml-friends but we could also hardcode it in friends-app for now as a workaround (same as isMicroblogging ).

Tough to say. I think the *ideal* solution would be to define the maximum message lengths in *friends* itself, since that's there most of the platform-specific info is encapsulated. The only problem is that there's no good way to communicate that from friends to friends-app. So, it would require a pretty massive overhaul to be able to communicate those between (like, we'd need to add methods to the dbus interface, which requires a painful transition).

At this point, I'd just as well code it directly in friends-app, because a) it's not something that's likely to change, so there's little value in being able to query it from the services, and b) it's the path of least resistence.

Okay. I'll propose a branch soon ;)