[Qgis-developer] Housekeeping in the (Qgs)Settings

Tue Mar 7 00:44:18 PST 2017

On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 9:37 AM, Richard Duivenvoorde <richard at duif.net>
wrote:

>
> Hi Ale,
>
> yep agreed! And now (while most users do not have real 3.0
> configs/settings) is the only time to do this...
> as people will loose all connections etc etc
>
> I would even be ok, to use python style names, so no capitals and use of
> underscores:
>
> /BetterAttributeTable/geometry
> becomes
> better_attribute_table/geometry
>
> etc etc
>
> Let's clean up :-)
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard
>
>

Hi Richard,

thanks for the feed-back, the original plan was to have all setting keys
case-insensitive  (lowercase) but that was reverted yesterday, because some
setting keys have been used to store values (i.e. strings) as a part of the
key, like for example the name of a WMS/WFS or plugin site description.

I'm afraid we are forced to live with that.

BTW, the new QgsSettings class supports namespaced settings, we have "gui",
"core", "server", "plugins", "misc", so we should be able to organize the
setting keys in a more logical manner.

>
> On 2017-03-06 11:05, Alessandro Pasotti wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> the current keys naming for the settings is not very consistent, what
>> do you guys think about cleaning it a bit?
>>
>> I was thinking at:
>>
>> 1. adding an 'app' section to QgsSettings::Section enum, to store
>> namespaced settings for the application
>> 2. remove the '/' at the beginning of the keys (it's completely
>> unuseful)
>> 3. enforce namespacing with the use of Sections on all keys used in
>> the '/src/*' folders
>>
>> This is a quick grep|sort|uniq of the setting keys:
>>
>> allowGeometrylessTables
>> /BetterAttributeTable/geometry
>> /browser/favourites
>> /browser/hiddenPaths
>> cache/directory
>> cache/size
>> /colors/palettecolors
>> /colors/palettelabels
>> /colors/recent
>> /ColorWidgets/textWidgetFormat
>> /Composer/defaultFont
>> /Composer/defaultSnapGridOffsetX
>> /Composer/defaultSnapGridOffsetY
>> /Composer/defaultSnapGridResolution
>> /Composer/defaultSnapTolerancePixels
>> /Composer/geometry
>> composer/searchPathsForTemplates
>> /ComposerUI/state
>> CptCity/archiveName
>> CptCity/baseDir
>> crs
>> database
>> /dataitem/directoryHiddenColumns
>> /Db2/connections/selected
>> dboptions
>> dbworkspace
>> Digitizing
>> /digitizing/simplify_tolerance
>> /digitizing/simplify_tolerance_units
>> dpiMode
>> /Error/dialog/detail
>> estimatedMetadata
>> /eVis/browser-geometry
>> /eVis/db-geometry
>> fontFamily
>> /fontFamily
>> fontPointSize
>> /fontPointSize
>> geometryColumnsOnly
>> /gps/lastPort
>> /GradientEditor/plotAlpha
>> /GradientEditor/plotHue
>> /GradientEditor/plotLightness
>> /GradientEditor/plotSaturation
>> /GRASS/browser/import/crsTransform
>> /GRASS/browser/import/external
>> /GRASS/gidbase/custom
>> /GRASS/gidbase/customDir
>> /GRASS/lastDirectOutputDir
>> /GRASS/lastGisdbase
>> /GRASS/lastLocation
>> /GRASS/lastMapset
>> /GRASS/modules/config/custom
>> /GRASS/modules/config/customDir
>> /GRASS/modules/debug
>> /GRASS/newMapsetWizard/openMapset
>> /GRASS/region/color
>> /GRASS/region/on
>> /GRASS/region/width
>> /GRASS/showTopoLayers
>> /GRASS/windows/tools/geometry
>> groupBoxCustom
>> help/helpSearchPath
>> /HelpViewer/geometry
>> /HistogramWidget/showMean
>> /HistogramWidget/showStdev
>> host
>> iconSize
>> /IconSize
>> ignoreAxisOrientation
>> ignoreGetFeatureInfoURI
>> ignoreGetMapURI
>> invertAxisOrientation
>> lastColorMapDir
>> locale
>> locale/overrideFlag
>> locale/userLocale
>> /Map/highlight/buffer
>> /Map/highlight/color
>> /Map/highlight/colorAlpha
>> /Map/highlight/minWidth
>> /Map/identifyMode
>> /Map/logCanvasRefreshEvent
>> Map/scales
>> /Map/searchRadiusMM
>> /MSSQL/connections/selected
>> /ogr/connections/selectedtype
>> /osm/lastDir
>> password
>> path
>> /Plugin-GeoReferencer/lastcompression
>> /Plugin-GeoReferencer/lastPDFReportDir
>> /Plugin-GeoReferencer/lastresampling
>> /Plugin-GeoReferencer/lasttransformation
>> /Plugin-GeoReferencer/loadinqgis
>> /Plugin-GeoReferencer/targetsrs
>> /Plugin-GeoReferencer/TransformSettingsWindow/geometry
>> /Plugin-Georeferencer/user_specified_resolution
>> /Plugin-GeoReferencer/user_specified_resx
>> /Plugin-GeoReferencer/user_specified_resy
>> /Plugin-Georeferencer/word_file_checkbox
>> /Plugin-GeoReferencer/zeroastrans
>> /Plugin-GPS/devicelist
>> /Plugin-GPS/geometry
>> /Plugin-GPS/gpsbabelpath
>> /Plugin-GPS/gpxdirectory
>> /Plugin-GPS/importdirectory
>> /Plugin-GPS/lastdldevice
>> /Plugin-GPS/lastdlport
>> /Plugin-GPS/lastImportFilter
>> /Plugin-GPS/lastTab
>> /Plugin-GPS/lastuldevice
>> /Plugin-GPS/lastulport
>> Plugin-OfflineEditing/geometry
>> Plugin-OfflineEditing/offline_data_path
>> plugins/searchPathsForPlugins
>> port
>> /PostgreSQL/connections/selected
>> previewImage
>> /Projections/defaultBehavior
>> /Projections/layerDefaultCrs
>> /Projections/otfTransformEnabled
>> /Projections/projectDefaultCrs
>> /Projections/showDatumTransformDialog
>> proxy/proxyEnabled
>> proxy/proxyExcludedUrls
>> proxy/proxyHost
>> proxy/proxyPassword
>> proxy/proxyPort
>> proxy/proxyType
>> proxy/proxyUser
>> pythonConsole/fontfamilytextEditor
>> pythonConsole/fontsizeEditor
>> /qgis/addDb2DC
>> /qgis/addMSSQLDC
>> /qgis/addPostgisDC
>> qgis/askToSaveProjectChanges
>> /qgis/attributeTableBehavior
>> /qgis/attributeTableLastView
>> /qgis/attributeTableRowCache
>> /qgis/attributeTableView
>> /qgis/capitalizeLayerName
>> /qgis/checkVersion
>> /Qgis/connections-wms/selected
>> /qgis/copyFeatureFormat
>> /qgis/copyGeometryAsWKT
>> /qgis/default_canvas_color_blue
>> /qgis/default_canvas_color_green
>> /qgis/default_canvas_color_red
>> /qgis/default_measure_color_blue
>> /qgis/default_measure_color_green
>> /qgis/default_measure_color_red
>> /qgis/default_selection_color_alpha
>> /qgis/default_selection_color_blue
>> /qgis/default_selection_color_green
>> /qgis/default_selection_color_red
>> /qgis/digitizing/default_snap_enabled
>> /qgis/digitizing/default_snap_mode
>> /qgis/digitizing/default_snapping_tolerance
>> /qgis/digitizing/default_snapping_tolerance_unit
>> /qgis/digitizing/disable_enter_attribute_values_dialog
>> /qgis/digitizing/fill_color_alpha
>> /qgis/digitizing/fill_color_blue
>> /qgis/digitizing/fill_color_green
>> /qgis/digitizing/fill_color_red
>> /qgis/digitizing/line_color_alpha
>> /qgis/digitizing/line_color_alpha_scale
>> /qgis/digitizing/line_color_blue
>> /qgis/digitizing/line_color_green
>> /qgis/digitizing/line_color_red
>> /qgis/digitizing/line_ghost
>> /qgis/digitizing/line_width
>> /qgis/digitizing/marker_only_for_selected
>> /qgis/digitizing/marker_size
>> /qgis/digitizing/marker_style
>> /qgis/digitizing/reuseLastValues
>> /qgis/digitizing/search_radius_vertex_edit
>> /qgis/digitizing/search_radius_vertex_edit_unit
>> /qgis/digitizing/validate_geometries
>> /qgis/dockAttributeTable
>> /qgis/enableMacros
>> /qgis/enableMapTips
>> Qgis/helpQgisHomePageUrl
>> /qgis/ignoreShapeEncoding
>> /qgis/legendDoubleClickAction
>> /qgis/live_color_dialogs
>> /qgis/magnifier_factor_default
>> /qgis/measure/angleunits
>> /qgis/measure/decimalplaces
>> /qgis/measure/displayunits
>> /qgis/measure/keepbaseunit
>> /qgis/messageTimeout
>> /qgis/native_color_dialogs
>> /qgis/new_layers_visible
>> /qgis/newProjectDefault
>> /qgis/overwriteStyle
>> /qgis/projectTemplateDir
>> /qgis/projOpenAtLaunch
>> /qgis/projOpenAtLaunchPath
>> /qgis/projOpenedOKAtLaunch
>> /qgis/promptForRasterSublayers
>> /qgis/promptForSublayers
>> Qgis/QgisApiUrl
>> Qgis/reportaBugUrl
>> /qgis/scanItemsFastScanUris
>> /qgis/scanItemsInBrowser2
>> /qgis/scanZipInBrowser2
>> /qgis/segmentationTolerance
>> /qgis/segmentationToleranceType
>> /qgis/showLegendClassifiers
>> /qgis/showTips%1
>> /qgis/simplifyAlgorithm
>> /qgis/simplifyDrawingHints
>> /qgis/simplifyDrawingTol
>> /qgis/simplifyLocal
>> /qgis/simplifyMaxScale
>> qgis/stylesheet/groupBoxCustom
>> Qgis/supportProvidersUrl
>> /qgis/warnOldProjectVersion
>> /qgis/wheel_action
>> /qgis/WMSSearchUrl
>> /qgis/zoom_factor
>> /Raster/defaultPalette
>> /Raster/histogram/drawLines
>> /Raster/histogram/showMarkers
>> /Raster/histogram/updateStyleToMinMax
>> /Raster/histogram/zoomToMinMax
>> referer
>> savePassword
>> saveUsername
>> service
>> smoothPixmapTransform
>> /SpatiaLite/connections/%1/sqlitepath
>> /SpatiaLite/connections/selected
>> SpatialQuery/geometry
>> sslmode
>> /StatisticalSummaryDock/checked_%1
>> /StatisticalSummaryDock/checked_missing_values
>> style/lastStyleDir
>> svg/searchPathsForSVG
>> /Themes
>> title
>> /UI/annotationTool
>> UI/autoApplyStyling
>> /UI/ComposerManager/templatePath
>> /UI/Customization/enabled
>> /UI/defaultAddDbLayerAction
>> /UI/defaultFeatureService
>> /UI/defaultMapService
>> /UI/defaultMoveTool
>> /UI/defaultNewLayer
>> /UI/defaultPointSymbolAction
>> /UI/encoding
>> /UI/geometry
>> UI/lastAuthImportBundleOpenFileDir
>> UI/lastAuthImportCertOpenFileDir
>> UI/lastAuthImportSslOpenFileDir
>> UI/lastAuthOpenFileDir
>> /UI/lastComposerTemplateDir
>> UI/lastComposerTemplateDir
>> /UI/lastExternalResourceWidgetDefaultPath
>> UI/lastMatchToSymbolsDir
>> /UI/lastProjectDir
>> /UI/lastRasterFileDir
>> /UI/lastSaveAsImageDir
>> /UI/lastSaveAsImageFilter
>> /UI/lastSaveAsSvgFile
>> /UI/lastSpatiaLiteDir
>> /UI/lastSVGMarkerDir
>> /UI/LastUsedDirectory
>> /UI/lastVectorFileFilterDir
>> /UI/lastVectorFormat
>> /UI/measureTool
>> /UI/missingDirectory
>> /UI/recentProjections
>> /UI/recentProjectionsAuthId
>> /UI/recentProjectionsProj4
>> /UI/recentProjectsList
>> /UI/selectTool
>> /UI/state
>> /UI/styleUndoMergeTimeout
>> /UI/tileScaleEnabled
>> UI/UITheme
>> url
>> username
>> userTablesOnly
>> /variables/names
>> /variables/values
>> wfs/max_feature_count_if_not_provided
>> /Windows/AttributeSelectionDialog/geometry
>> /Windows/BetterAttributeTable/geometry
>> /Windows/Bookmarks/geometry
>> /Windows/Bookmarks/headerstate
>> /Windows/Bookmarks/LastUsedDirectory
>> /Windows/ChangeLabelProps/geometry
>> /Windows/ColorDialog/activeComponent
>> /Windows/ColorDialog/activeScheme
>> /Windows/ColorDialog/activeTab
>> /Windows/ColorDialog/customColor1
>> /Windows/ColorDialog/customColor10
>> /Windows/ColorDialog/customColor11
>> /Windows/ColorDialog/customColor12
>> /Windows/ColorDialog/customColor13
>> /Windows/ColorDialog/customColor14
>> /Windows/ColorDialog/customColor15
>> /Windows/ColorDialog/customColor16
>> /Windows/ColorDialog/customColor2
>> /Windows/ColorDialog/customColor3
>> /Windows/ColorDialog/customColor4
>> /Windows/ColorDialog/customColor5
>> /Windows/ColorDialog/customColor6
>> /Windows/ColorDialog/customColor7
>> /Windows/ColorDialog/customColor8
>> /Windows/ColorDialog/customColor9
>> /Windows/ColorDialog/geometry
>> /Windows/ColorDialog/sampleRadius
>> /Windows/ComposerImageExportOptionsDialog/geometry
>> /Windows/ComposerManager/geometry
>> /Windows/ComposerTableBackgroundColorsDialog/geometry
>> /Windows/CptCityColorRampV2Dialog/geometry
>> /Windows/CptCityColorRampV2Dialog/splitter
>> /Windows/CustomProjection/geometry
>> /Windows/DatumTransformDialog/columnWidths/%1
>> /Windows/DatumTransformDialog/geometry
>> /Windows/DatumTransformDialog/hideDeprecated
>> /Windows/DatumTransformDialog/rememberSelection
>> /Windows/Db2SourceSelect/columnWidths/%1
>> /Windows/Db2SourceSelect/geometry
>> /Windows/Db2SourceSelect/HoldDialogOpen
>> /Windows/DecorationCopyright/geometry
>> /Windows/DecorationNorthArrow/geometry
>> /Windows/DecorationScaleBar/geometry
>> /Windows/Diagrams/OptionsSplitState
>> /Windows/Diagrams/Tab
>> /Windows/EmbedLayer/geometry
>> /Windows/ExpressionBuilderDialog/geometry
>> /Windows/ExpressionSelectionDialog/geometry
>> /Windows/GradientEditor/geometry
>> /Windows/Labeling/FontPreviewSplitState
>> /Windows/Labeling/OptionsSplitState
>> /Windows/Labeling/Tab
>> /Windows/loadStyleFromDb/geometry
>> /Windows/Measure/geometry
>> /Windows/Measure/h
>> /Windows/Measure/hNoTable
>> /Windows/MergeAttributes/geometry
>> /Windows/MessageViewer/geometry
>> /Windows/MSSQLSourceSelect/columnWidths/%1
>> /Windows/MSSQLSourceSelect/geometry
>> /Windows/MSSQLSourceSelect/HoldDialogOpen
>> /Windows/NewGeoPackageLayer/geometry
>> /Windows/NewMemoryLayer/geometry
>> /Windows/NewSpatiaLiteLayer/geometry
>> /Windows/NewVectorLayer/geometry
>> /Windows/OGRDatabaseConnection/geometry
>> /Windows/OpenVectorLayer/geometry
>> /Windows/PgSourceSelect/columnWidths/%1
>> /Windows/PgSourceSelect/geometry
>> /Windows/PgSourceSelect/HoldDialogOpen
>> /Windows/PluginManager/secondSplitterState
>> /Windows/ProjectionSelector/geometry
>> /Windows/QgsAttributeTypeDialog/geometry
>> /Windows/QgsDelAttrDialog/geometry
>> /Windows/QgsExpressionBuilderWidget/editorsplitter
>> /Windows/QgsExpressionBuilderWidget/functionsplitter
>> /Windows/QgsExpressionBuilderWidget/splitter
>> /Windows/QgsFieldCalculator/geometry
>> /Windows/QgsGrassNewMapset/geometry
>> /Windows/QgsOrganizeTableColumnsDialog/geometry
>> /Windows/QgsRendererRulePropsDialog/geometry
>> /Windows/QueryBuilder/geometry
>> /Windows/RasterCalc/geometry
>> /Windows/saveStyleToDb/geometry
>> /Windows/SelectByForm/geometry
>> /Windows/ShortcutsDialog/geometry
>> /Windows/SourceSelectDialog/geometry
>> /Windows/SourceSelectDialog/UseTitleLayerName
>> /Windows/SpatiaLiteSourceSelect/geometry
>> /Windows/SpatiaLiteSourceSelect/HoldDialogOpen
>> /Windows/StyleV2Manager/geometry
>> /Windows/StyleV2Manager/splitter
>> /Windows/SvgSelectorDialog/geometry
>> /Windows/SvgSelectorWidget/RelativePath
>> /Windows/symbolLevelsDlg/geometry
>> /Windows/SymbolSelectorWidget/geometry
>> /Windows/TextFormatDialog/geometry
>> /Windows/VectorLayerSaveAs/geometry
>> /Windows/WFSSourceSelect/FeatureCurrentViewExtent
>> /Windows/WFSSourceSelect/geometry
>> /Windows/WFSSourceSelect/HoldDialogOpen
>> /Windows/WFSSourceSelect/UseTitleLayerName
>> /Windows/WMSSourceSelect/geometry
>> /Windows/WMTSDimensions/geometry
>> zmax
>> zmin
>>
>> --
>> Alessandro Pasotti
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