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On 18-07-2015 09:53, Jürgen E. Fischer wrote:<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:20150718075340.GA17630@norbit.de" type="cite">
<pre wrap="">We could switch to file based configs and add -configpath
%USERPROFILE%\qgis-config-@version@ to the shortcuts (@version@ would be the
actual version) - that way each version (but not each installation of the same
version) would use a different settings.</pre>
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Oh please, please do it...<br>
<br>
This would be a _vast_ improvement for a lot of QGIS users.
Introducing the posibility of using environment variables
(%USERPROFILE%) and tokens (@version@) in the configuration file
would make it possible to create a QGIS installation that was
independent of the registry and the absolute location of the QGIS
directory. <br>
<br>
Instead of have lines like this in in the QGIS2.ini file:<br>
<br>
<b>Configuration\SAGA_FOLDER=E:/OSGeo4W/apps\\saga</b><br>
<br>
with an absolute path definition, You could have something like
this:<br>
<br>
<b>Configuration\SAGA_FOLDER=%OSGEO4W_HOME%/apps/saga</b><b><br>
</b><br>
or this:<br>
<br>
<b>Configuration\<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:SAGA_FOLDER=@qgis_bin_path@/../../apps/saga">SAGA_FOLDER=@qgis_bin_path@/../../apps/saga</a></b><b><br>
<br>
</b>removing any references to absolute paths. And having the
configuration parameters collected in a ini file makes it simple to
find and edit any specific parameter using a simple text editor
instead of mucking around in the registry. <br>
<br>
Installation of QGIS could be as simple as unzipping a zip file
(with a little help of some DOS voodoo in the QGIS startup .bat
file)<br>
<br>
Regards<br>
Bo Victor Thomsen<br>
AestasGIS <br>
Denmark<br>
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