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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2014/03/09 21:27, Richard
Duivenvoorde wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">~/.qgis2
and
~/.config/QGIS
You could e.g. rsync the user plugin dirs from a central one, or put
them in an nfs mount (read only might have issues as plugins try to
write .pyc files or even write data to the plugin dir).
The ~/.config/QGIS/QGIS2.conf is a standard ini style config file so you
should be able to pick through it and awk/sed/bash your way to nirvana :-)
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I'm actually thinking about to make this OS independent, by creating a
'save QSettings' as file option. Then with a command line option you
would be able to (just before reading the QSettings) actually read/write
this settings file back into user settings. Thereby making it possible
to for example transfer a certain setup across a class room (as long as
the plugins are available in .qgis2 off cours).
Would this work? Or do I miss something?
Regards,
Richard Duivenvoorde
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Hi Richard/Tim/All,<br>
One of the biggest problems I have with my data capture projects is
uniformity of capture environment for my project staff.<br>
You have just quoted a school scenario, but map production has that
too.<br>
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I would really like to see a system wide (maybe network wide for
both Windows & Linux users) config file that looks after all the
icon placements and plugins installed and activated.<br>
<br>
It could perhaps work like /etc/profile in linux - where that is
loaded first, then ~/.profile if it exists, modifies the systemwide
settings for that specific user.<br>
<br>
To be honest, if that was extended to a "master" qgisprofile file on
a specific server that would be even more useful - I often use
multi-seat linux PCs networked together, for larger data capture
projects.<br>
<br>
So, possible implementation could be:<br>
<ul>
<li>At install time, the user is asked if this is a
"qgis-profile-server" PC, or to supply the qgis-profile-server
PC name if there already is such a server on the network.</li>
<li>If such qgis-profile-server exists then the install procedure
could get profile and plugin details from that PC, and copy over
the config files and plugin binaries.</li>
<li>If the person installing qgis ignores the "profile-server"
questions, then an autonomous installtion of qgis could take
place, even if there was a qgis-profile-server on the network.<br>
(This would allow test installations and non-production
installations to co-exist with a production environment)<br>
</li>
<li>It would be great if in the setup of the qgis-profile-server
PC, a flag could be set that disallowed a (specific list or all)
PC to change the icon placements or fiddle with any config or
plugin. ie: Such PCs would always be dependent on the setup
dictated by the profile-server.<br>
</li>
</ul>
This could also be made dynamic in that if the qgis-profile-server
was updated or changed, it could set a flag. Whenever QGIS is
started on a PC belonging to a profile-server group, it could first
check with the server to see if changes need to be made, and if so,
update the local copy of the profile. This way one could make
changes to the master copy of QGIS and by restarting all the QGIS
users on the network, propagate the changes to them immediately.
(This is preferable to always obtaining your profiles across the
network from a server.)<br>
<br>
I haven't thought this through in "algorythm fashion", but that's
the gist of what facilities and mechanisms would be really nice in a
production environment.<br>
<br>
HTH,<br>
Zoltan<br>
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