[QGIS-Developer] QGIS and privacy

[Alessandro Pasotti]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 9:03 AM Thomas B <rdbath.regiodata at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Am Mi., 24. März 2021 um 08:16 Uhr schrieb jrmorreale_ml at enoreth.net <jrmorreale_ml at enoreth.net>:
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>> Nop, the trickiest part is to have a configuration policy beyond the basic IT packaging.  I'm using these variables mainly to work with oracle and other in-house apps where things like the user_account_name are central, I would dread to have a week long fix event after our users would have (rightfully from their point of view) checked this box.
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> Couldn't you use a Group Policy to set the  PYQGIS_STARTUP environment variable on every computer and then use a startup.py to make sure the settings are correct?
> I use this for other settings where I don't want the users to change them and this works fine as the startup.py is run at every start of QGIS.
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> ( Speaking about corporate use of QGIS: it would be nice to have something like the Initialization scripts the QGIS-fork "Boundless Desktop" had: https://boundless-desktop.readthedocs.io/en/latest/system_admins/init_scripts.html
> but it also works with one startup.py file. )
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> I am glad QGIS has the functionality to track who made the last changes to a project file but at the same time I can understand concerns about it.
> For me it would be a good compromise to inform new (non corporate) users with the configuration wizard and let them decide what they want. I can still use the startup.py to make sure the settings are correct.
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Hi,

I am the author of the Boundless init scripts and I just wanted to
stress that the global settings ini files are another way to
pre-configure QGIS settings in a corporate environment.

See: https://docs.qgis.org/3.16/en/docs/user_manual/introduction/qgis_configuration.html#globalsettingsfile

Kind regards

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Alessandro Pasotti
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