Comment 5 for bug 1168457

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.