[Qgis-developer] Folder repetition of SVG symbols

[Neumann, Andreas]

Hi, 

What I don't understand is why QGIS automatically adds such SVG folders
without asking the user? 

I can understand that the central SVG folder of the application is
automatically added by default - but why adding an SVG folder from the
users folder by default? In my opinion this is bad behaviour by QGIS.
Users should consciously add such settings and understand the
implications. 

In my case QGIS added C:/Users/username/.qgis2/svg 

I never asked QGIS to do that and I never intend so store SVG symbols
there. I add my symbols at folder locations where all of my local users
can share and benefit from each others contributions, typically, shared
resources. 

I also have the same issue that I usually have 3-5 parallel QGIS
installations on my Windows machine and I get the central folder of each
of them. Not very nice ... and it slows down QGIS. Shouldn't QGIS leave
settings as they are if the .qgis2 settings folder already exists? 

Andreas 

On 2016-09-01 14:55, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote:

> On 01-09-16 14:32, matteo wrote: 
> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I have a weird problem. I noticed that the SVG filling in the vector
>> styling took a lot to load the symbols (really a lot) causing sometimes
>> the crashing of QGIS.
>> 
>> So I discovered that I have the same App Symbol and User Symbols (empty)
>> folders repeated 5 many times. Same folder, same symbols, same path
>> (/usr/share/qgis/svg and /home/matteo/.qgis2/svg).
>> 
>> I never added new symbols (fresh QGIS master_2 compiled yesterday) on a
>> Ubuntu 16.04 machine.
>> 
>> Is this behavior normal or have I some strange configuration?
> 
> Yep, I have seen this before... we even spoke about it in Bonn.. one of
> the ideas was that this maybe was when you run multiple instances of
> QGIS or install a new version while another is running or so??
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Richard
> 
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