[QGIS-Developer] QgsSettings + ows key cleanup?

[Nathan Woodrow]

ps Nathan: any news on your profile work?

Yeah getting there, just doing clean up etc. Busy at work at the moment but
hopefully this weekend.

We also need something to deal with these key changes to help people
migrate from 2 to 3. We need a transform settings function.

On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 9:27 PM, Richard Duivenvoorde <rdmailings at duif.net>
wrote:

> On 18-05-17 12:11, Alessandro Pasotti wrote:
> > Hi Richard,
> >
> > Cleaning is always very welcome!
> >
> > I think that to bring some more order to the root level settings, we
> > should eventually make more use of the optional section argument:
> >
> > https://qgis.org/api/classQgsSettings.html#
> aba2f174ee000905cac8aff26665ed7c7
> >
> > This is not implemented for groups though, but if you feel it could be
> > helpful I can add it.
>
> Hi Alessandro,
>
> I do not understand: "This is not implemented for groups though..."
> Isn't a section the same concept as a group?
> Where is this 'section' element to be used?
> Or is the idea to use it in a (free chosen) group?
>
> I already have > 40 groups/sections(?) (as counted in the 'Advanced
> Settings Editor').
> I do not think it is possible to bring that back to the 8 you propose,
> do you?
>
> Looking into the 'Advanced Settings Editor' I also have double values in
> the following 'groups'?
> PythonPlugins
> and
> pythonplugins
> but this could be due to recent changes. Ik will remove my config
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard
>
> ps Nathan: any news on your profile work?
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