Why is the max limit 50? Is it a performance issue?

[nickjj]

I recently discovered the niri actions provider and it only shows the first 50 results. Of course you can search out any of them but when you're trying to discover the actions you might not know what to search for. In that case I find myself going back to the terminal to run niri msg actions and scanning the results.

I know there's a config option to raise this limit but why wasn't a higher limit chosen by default?

I also see you can do this:

[providers.max_results_provider]
niriactions = 150

I also combed through some of the git commit history that introduced the max limit here f8a48ca but it didn't indicate why 50 was chosen. The general question stands on why not default to 250 or some higher number for all of them?

[abenz1267]

really just arbitrary. the "discovery"-usecase isn't really something that was kept in mind. even 50 sounds like a lot for something that is primarily meant to be used as a search.