[QGIS-Developer] Preferred way to set startup options on Windows and is qgis_global_settings.ini used or not

[Alexandre Neto]

Hi Richard,

In preparation for a release of Boundless Desktop 2, which would be based
on QGIS 3 (I don't know nothing about it now) we prepared some
documentation for system administrators. See if any of this helps:

https://github.com/boundlessgeo/desktop-documentation/tree/master/docs/source/system_admins

BTW, I am not sure if any of this was specific of the product or if it
should work with any version of QGIS.

Hope it helps.

Alex

PS: Let me know if any of this is valid for our the official QGIS release.
If so, I would love to put it on our docs. (I think we miss a section like
this, just for system administrators)

On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 9:48 AM Richard Duivenvoorde <rdmailings at duif.net>
wrote:

> Investigating a way to install QGIS in a large organisation, I'm looking
> into the options to centrally setup some options.
>
> As QGIS has a lot of configuration options, see:
>
>
> https://docs.qgis.org/testing/en/docs/user_manual/introduction/qgis_configuration.html
>
> it is pretty easy on a linux computer to set these options (either as
> alias or just from the command line).
>
> BUT: I miss (or I cannot find it) in our docs the best way to do this on
> Windows? In qgis2 there was the qgis.bat file in which you could add
> stuff, but nowadays (at least in the msi installer) the startup seems to
> point to a qgis-bin.exe or qgis-bin-g7.exe file?
> OR should I not use the options but the environment variables? And then
> put them in qgis-bin.env?
> I see there is still a qgis.bat ?? Is that used in the msi install (or
> for the osgeo4w install)?
> Or should I edit "Target" in the Window start thingie properties?
>
> ( a pointer to the docs is also ok :-) )
>
> About qgis_global_settings.ini, in the above mentioned docs it is written:
>
> --globalsettingsfile option
> Using this option, you can specify the path for a Global Settings file
> (.ini), also known as the Default Settings. The settings in the
> specified file replace the original inline default ones, but the user
> profiles’ settings will be set on top of those. The default global
> settings is located in
> your_QGIS_PKG_path/resources/qgis_global_settings.ini.
>
> But what is this qgis_global_settings.ini in my install folder?
> Is it used? (I do not think so, as if I change the content of it and
> start a new profile, I cannot find my edits)
> Or is it only meant as a 'template' for admins to use WHEN then use the
> --globalsettingsfile option?
>
> If the first: how?
> If the last: I will then proably add some comments into this ini file,
> and maybe rephrase the docs which talks about 'inline default ones'??
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Duivenvoorde
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