[drupal-devel] hard coded page sizes

[David Reed]

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?