[Qgis-developer] configuration lost when running 2.0

[William Kyngesburye]

This reminds me, if it's not too late, can we get something done with http://hub.qgis.org/issues/7192 (original http://hub.qgis.org/issues/1442 that I could not reopen)?  I really wanted to get the qgis2 folder moved on OS X and Windows for the 2.0 release.

There is a patch for Windows in the original bug report, and a addition for OS X.  I could try applying it, but I don't know if there is anything else needed after all the changes in the source, and it might affect plugins that don't wrap paths in quotes.

On Jun 12, 2013, at 8:39 AM, Nathan Woodrow wrote:

> This is to allow the running of 1.8 and 2.0.  
> 
> On windows, because I don't know where it is in linux, the settings are stored in:
> 
> For 1.8
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\QuantumGIS\QGIS
> 
> For 2.0:
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\QGIS\QGIS2
> 
> 1) For the re-banding we did
> 2) To allow 1.8 and 2.0 to run on the same machine without overriding a persons 1.8 setup.
> 
> You lost the settings because settings are not auto transfered when QGIS starts. It could be done but no one has done it.  This is the same reason we have a .qgis and .qgis2 folder.  The plugins can conflict so we have to keep them apart, the symbol library format has also changed,
> 
> - Nathan
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 11:24 PM, Sandro Santilli <strk at keybit.net> wrote:
> I was surprised by not finding my postgresql connections in the pull-down
> menu when starting qgis-2.0 (master) from the build dir. I'm pretty sure
> it used to work last time I'v built it.
> 
> NathanW told me this is due to a change in the configuration path, from
> .qgis to .qgis2, and I'm wondering why this forced reset is needed.
> 
> I don't know what else is in those configs, but this specific setting
> I'm after is really annoying to loose. It'd be like loosing bookmarks
> when upgrading a web browser from one version to another.
> 
> So, what's the rationale for changing that name, thus using a completely
> separate configuration ?
> 
> --strk;
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