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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Thanks so much Alessandro!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Having read some documentation:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><a href="https://connect.boundlessgeo.com/docs/desktop/1.1.0/system_admins/globalsettings.html">https://connect.boundlessgeo.com/docs/desktop/1.1.0/system_admins/globalsettings.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">I am sure that this will be a cool new feature in QGIS 3 that will be very much appreciated by organisations!!!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Thanks again for the hint!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Cheers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Stefan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Alessandro Pasotti [mailto:apasotti@gmail.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> onsdag 1. november 2017 09.30<br>
<b>To:</b> Stefan Blumentrath <Stefan.Blumentrath@nina.no><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Nathan Woodrow <madmanwoo@gmail.com>; Borys Jurgiel <lists@borysjurgiel.pl>; Richard Duivenvoorde <richard@duif.net>; qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [QGIS-Developer] Settings migration from QGIS 2 to 3<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Stefan, you may try to use global settings for shared user settings, you can specify the global settings file path in several ways (and it could even be a shared network folder).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">See: <br>
<a href="https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/blob/master/src/app/main.cpp#L131">https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/blob/master/src/app/main.cpp#L131</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">and:<br>
<a href="https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/blob/master/src/app/main.cpp#L831">https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/blob/master/src/app/main.cpp#L831</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">the global settings format is exactly the same of the user settings file: INI.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Hope this helps.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 11:19 PM, Stefan Blumentrath <<a href="mailto:Stefan.Blumentrath@nina.no" target="_blank">Stefan.Blumentrath@nina.no</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Dear all,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I am really looking forward to seeing all QGIS configuration in ini-files and that registry
will be abandoned on Windows in QGIS 3!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">That will be a great improvement, esp. from a sys-admin perspective!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">In this consolidation context I was wondering I would be possible to prepare for:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="m-388160701026182734msolistparagraph"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">-</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:7.0pt;color:#1F497D">
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Use of relative path (<a href="https://issues.qgis.org/issues/12623" target="_blank">https://issues.qgis.org/issues/12623</a>)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Usage of variables in the ini file</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I have been earlier thinking about “versioning” of ini files, so that updates (e.g. changes
in OWS URLs) can be passed to all users as a sort of “diff/merge” without damaging individual adjustments they might have made.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Background is that the Norwegian mapping authority provides a “Service feed” (<a href="https://register.geonorge.no/register/tjenestevarsler" target="_blank">https://register.geonorge.no/register/tjenestevarsler</a>)
where all OWS changes are announced… I would love to be able to just apply those changes to all our users…</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">No idea if such a thing could be fostered by the way settings are stored in the ini files?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Cheers</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Stefan</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> QGIS-Developer
[mailto:<a href="mailto:qgis-developer-bounces@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">qgis-developer-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Nathan Woodrow<br>
<b>Sent:</b> mandag 30. oktober 2017 15.27<br>
<b>To:</b> Borys Jurgiel <<a href="mailto:lists@borysjurgiel.pl" target="_blank">lists@borysjurgiel.pl</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Richard Duivenvoorde <<a href="mailto:richard@duif.net" target="_blank">richard@duif.net</a>>;
<a href="mailto:qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [QGIS-Developer] Settings migration from QGIS 2 to 3</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB">Ah right. I'm happy with whatever there.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB">On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 12:25 AM, Borys Jurgiel <</span><a href="mailto:lists@borysjurgiel.pl" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB">lists@borysjurgiel.pl</span></a><span lang="EN-GB">>
wrote:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB">Dnia wtorek, 31 października 2017 00:19:49 Nathan Woodrow pisze:<br>
> Hey,<br>
><br>
> > There are over 100 keys there, are we going to migrate them all from<br>
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> Windows<br>
> to windows, like we did with Qgis -> qgis?<br>
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> No I don't think we need to do anything for those subgroups, dropping the<br>
> Windows placement between version isn't a big deal. The main core things<br>
> to migrate is stuff that is a pain to setup again.<br>
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Sorry I was unclear. I didn't mean migrating the values, just changing the<br>
section for all these keys.<br>
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</span>Regards,<br>
Borys<o:p></o:p></p>
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