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[Mateo Salta <1394455@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Is there any progress on this. I'm hitting a hard stop on making my
scope.

So the problem is - the scope makes several requests while typing - e.x.
typing "Douglas Adams" will result in a series of multiple requests
like:

Dispatching search: "ug" ""
Dispatching search: "ugl" ""
Dispatching search: "uglas" ""
Dispatching search:  "uglas " ""
Dispatching search: "uglas a" ""
Dispatching search: " "uglas ad" ""
Dispatching search: "uglas adad" ""
Dispatching search:  "uglas adam" ""
Dispatching search:  "uglas adams" ""
Dispatching search: "duglas adams" ""
Dispatching search: "dou adams" ""
Dispatching search:  "douglas adams" ""

most are irrelevant, as the api is not matching similar terms.

Also there is the problem that the api I am using limits the number of
requests per hour - so I am wasting 90% of those requests.

So, we either need

- a setting to delay request
- setting for longer typing timeout
- special only send on enter (maybe special icon withing search field to indicate)

or something so we can limit the rate of requests while typing...

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Title:
  100ms timeout for query submission too brief

Status in unity-scopes-api package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in unity-scopes-shell package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in unity8 package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  There is currently a 100 ms timeout between keypresses and query
  submission.  This is rather short and ends up submitting many queries
  while the user is still typing a delay of ~300 ms would eliminate many
  of these submissions while still being barely noticeable.

  See this thread for further discussion: https://lists.launchpad.net
  /ubuntu-phone/msg10361.html

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