[Qgis-developer] Common QGIS Plugin configuration accross multiple Linux users

[Tim Sutton]

Hi




On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 7:54 PM, Tim Sutton <lists at linfiniti.com> wrote:

> Hi Zoltan
>
>
>
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> On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Zoltan Szecsei <zoltans at geograph.co.za>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I have posted this a couple of hours ago on QGIS-user, but this might be
>> more of a dev question:
>>
>>
>> I've got a number of users created on an Ubuntu 13.10 PC.
>>
>> Is there a way that I can add the same plugins and proliferate the same
>> QGIS configuration to all users?
>> Perhaps by updating a master-User (icon arrangement, plugins etc) and
>> then copying that config file to the other users?
>>
>> If yes, what files need to be copied accross?
>>
>
> The two directories you care about in this case are
>
> ~/.qgis2
>

Sorry actually more specifically you probably only want to sync the plugins
dir at ~/.qgis2/python/plugins


> and
> ~/.config/QGIS
>
> You could e.g. rsync the user plugin dirs from a central one, or put them
> in an nfs mount (read only might have issues as plugins try to write .pyc
> files or even write data to the plugin dir).
>
> The ~/.config/QGIS/QGIS2.conf is a standard ini style config file so you
> should be able to pick through it and awk/sed/bash your way to nirvana :-)
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
>
>>
>> Regards & thanks,
>> Zoltan
>>
>>
>>
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