[Qgis-user] plugin installer with unstable internet connections

[Janneke Qgis]

Hi,
How do I disable the plugin installer? Just by removing the folder from 
C:\Program Files\Quantum GIS Wroclaw\apps\qgis\python\plugins , or is 
there a more subtle way?
thanks all for the insight!
Janneke

On 14/09/2011 00:47, Alister Hood wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:49:43 +0300
>> From: Janneke Qgis<janneke.qgis at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] plugin installer with unstable internet
>> 	connections
>> To: Tim Sutton<lists at linfiniti.com>
>> Cc: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
>> Message-ID:<4E6F5F77.6070707 at gmail.com>
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>>
>> Thanks for the quick answer, both Tim and Anita,
>>
>> Started copying the plugins from the following folder:
>> C:\Documents and Settings\Admin\.qgis\python\plugins
>>
>> but got confused as I also found the following two folders:
>>
>> C:\Program Files\Quantum GIS Wroclaw\apps\qgis\plugins
>> C:\Program Files\Quantum GIS Wroclaw\apps\qgis\python\plugins
>>
>> Does anything from these folders also need to be copied?
>>
>> Janneke
> Built-in Python plugins are installed in e.g. "C:\Program Files\Quantum
> GIS Wroclaw\apps\qgis\python\plugins"
>
> C++ plugins are installed in e.g. "C:\Program Files\Quantum GIS
> Wroclaw\apps\qgis\plugins"
>
> The plugin installer only installs Python plugins, and puts them in the
> user's home directory, e.g.
> "C:\Documents and Settings\Admin\.qgis\python\plugins"
>
> If you are installing Python plugins manually, it would make more sense
> to put them in "C:\Program Files\Quantum GIS
> Wroclaw\apps\qgis\python\plugins", instead of having to copy them into
> every user's home directory.  In this case you'd probably want to
> disable the plugin installer, because if at some stage a user updates
> one themselves, and doesn't keep it up to date, they could end up with
> an old plugin version in their home directory masking a newer one in the
> program directory.
> It would actually be nice if the plugin installer could put plugins in
> the program installation folder ("C:\Program Files\Quantum GIS
> Wroclaw\apps\qgis\python\plugins").  I think the only way to achieve
> this is with the --config-path option, but that way everyone also shares
> the same settings.
>
> Alister
>