[Qgis-user] Preconfiguration of QGIS installations, e.g. WMS Servers

[Alexander Bruy]

On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 16:24:34 +0100
Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net> wrote:

>  Interesting question - I don't have an answer but would like to know if 
>  it is possible.
> 
>  Here are partial anwers:
>  * SVG symbols and patterns can be put on a network share but have to be 
>  configured per user so that QGIS can find them.
>  * spatial bookmarks, srs, projection and ellipsoid information reside 
>  in a qgis.db spatialite table in the users .qgis directory - you 
>  probably have to copy them per user
>  * .qgis/symbology-ng-style.xml is a per-user definition of new 
>  symbology style definitions - you'd have to copy this file to each user
> 
>  I don't know where the WMS and postgis connections are stored.
> 
>  As more and more medium to large QGIS installations are installed, the 
>  QGIS devs need to think about central deployment of settings and 
>  resources, across several platforms.
> 
>  Anyone else who knows more about the issue?

WMS and PostGIS conncetions stored in registry on Windows and in config
file on Linux.

I think it is possible to create custom installer based on QGIS standalone
installer, which will create (copy) all necessary files and keys in registry.
NSIS allow all this things.

-- 
Alexander Bruy