[QGIS-Developer] Fresh QGIS3 misses all kind of 'default' options on first start

[Nathan Woodrow]

I will have a look at what options we have next Monday hopefully.

On Wed., 10 Jan. 2018, 10:40 pm Jorge Gustavo Rocha, <jgr at di.uminho.pt>
wrote:

> Hi Richard,
>
> Good point!
>
> We have in QGIS3 a new qgis_global_settings.ini file where we can put
> global default settings. These global settings can be override later by
> the users.
>
> I think we need to start populating this file with reasonable settings.
>
> You might suggest some of those settings to start with.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jorge Gustavo
>
> On 10-01-2018 11:53, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote:
> >
> > Hi Devs,
> >
> > Currently if you start QGIS3 for the first time, all kind of default
> > options (from the Options Dialog) are not yet 'saved' to QgsSettings().
> >
> > To test:
> > - remove ~/.share/local/QGIS
> > - start QGIS
> > - choose 'I want a clean start. Don't import my QGIS 2 settings.'
> >
> > Now in Python console type:
> >
> > QgsSettings().value( "help/helpSearchPath" )
> > which will return an emtpy list (of search paths)
> >
> > Open Settings/Options/System properties and see there is:
> > https://docs.qgis.org/$qgis_short_version/$qgis_locale/docs/user_manual/
> > in Documentation paths there.
> >
> > NOW click OK and
> >
> >>>> QgsSettings().value( "help/helpSearchPath" )
> > ['
> https://docs.qgis.org/$qgis_short_version/$qgis_locale/docs/user_manual/']
> >
> > So Question: is there a way to 'silently' save all those options for a
> > fresh user? I'm not so familiar with how those dialogs are constructed,
> > so can we 'submit' all tabs in one? Or should we submit them one by one?
> >
> > Ah, it appears that clicking OK once from whatever tab will 'save' (at
> > least this path) to QgsSettings()...
> >
> > Otherwise, current situation will be that a new user upon clicking
> > any(!) help button will always be shown with the daft "Oops! QGIS help
> > is currently not available. This is likely because: ... " message.
> >
> > See also:
> >
> > https://issues.qgis.org/issues/17670
> >
> > https://issues.qgis.org/issues/17598
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Richard Duivenvoorde
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