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[Robert Schroll <rschroll@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 12:44 AM, Michi Henning 
<michi.henning@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >  2) Is there a way to mark strings in the settings.ini file as 
> > translatable, and then to put those strings in the installed 
> > settings.ini file?
>
> There is a mechanism with some tools built around gettext. I believe 
> Pete may be able to comment on this. But, in general, you can 
> localize DisplayName and DisplayValues in the settings.ini file 
> directly, without any additional tool support. This is described here:
>
> http://developer.ubuntu.com/scopes/tutorials/adding-settings-to-your-scope/

But I can't localize these things myself -- I need the translators to 
do that.  Thus, I need to get these strings into the POT file.  And 
ideally, dropping the resultant PO files into my repository would 
automatically add the localized strings to to the .ini file, without me 
doing anything by hand.

But before I work myself into a lather about this, I'll see what Pete 
has to say.

> >  3) Is there a way to put text in the emblem, rather than an image.  
> > Right now, I'm using SVG images to fake it, but the alignment and 
> > font size is noticeably off.
>
> I don't think this is possible at the moment.

Is it worth submitting a bug about this?

> >  4) Is there any way to run an additional query to load more results 
> > when then user scrolls to the bottom of the query page?  I'm 
> > purposefully not trying to get all the results at first, but the 
> > pull-for-more behavior seems very natural and a compliment to the 
> > pull-for-refresh at the top.
>
> There is no support for incremental result delivery such as this. If 
> you have lots of results, the shell will automatically add a "Shore 
> more" button or some such, but there is no way for explicit paging 
> that would fetch more results from the backend in response to a user 
> action right now.

In my case, Google with throttle me if I try to request too many 
results at once.  Having the ability to query the server only when the 
user needs more results would be very useful.  Shall I create a bug 
here?

> >  6) If (5) is not possible, is it possible to mark the query results 
> > as invalid, so that the remote server is hit for all the results 
> > again?
>
> I believe you can attach a canned query URI to a preview action, in 
> which case the query will be run by the shell.

I've done that for other things, but that will show the query right 
away.  (Or, it should.  See bug #1335761.)  I don't want to run the 
query now, or possibly ever.  I only want it to be rerun if the user 
returns to the previous view.

FWIW, the OnlineAccountClient::PostLoginAction::InvalidateResults seems 
to do this, though I've never tested it from a preview page.

Thanks for all the answers, even if they weren't the ones I wanted,
Robert