I have a use to expose some of the admin type pages (logs, users etc) in a view with limited space available. I noticed that the page size is hard coded in all modules that use drupals paging mechanism. A quick glance reveals the following hard-coded pages sizes:
watchdog = 50 lines user = 50 lines statistics = 30 lines comment = 50 lines poll = 50 lines
I think it would be really usefull to provide a mechanism to override these hard-coded values. I would suggest something simple like apending a value to the url in the query string for page size. This value could be interogated by each module that calls theme_pager_link() to see if it should use it's hard-coded default or use an override.
I'm more than happy to provide some patches for this but I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing a far easier way to solve this issue.
Does anyone else see value in this? Is there a better way to do this other than patching the core modules?
No URL parameters please! None! Let this be a setting for the admin and/or the user, if you want this customized. Goba