[Qgis-user] plugin installer with unstable internet connections

[Alister Hood]

You can turn it off in the plugin manager, but then a user could turn it
back on again, so you might want to delete it.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Janneke Qgis [mailto:janneke.qgis at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, 14 September 2011 7:12 p.m.
> To: Alister Hood
> Cc: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] plugin installer with unstable internet
connections
> 
> 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>
> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
> >>
> >> 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
> >