[Qgis-user] storage of configs beside .qgis2

[Richard Duivenvoorde]

On 05-06-17 22:07, Tobias Wendorff wrote:
> Hi Claas,
> 
> Am Mo, 5.06.2017, 22:03 schrieb Claas Leiner:
>>
>> you can define your own Config directory:
>>
>> Create a directory an start qgis with the command:
>>
>> qgis --configpath "path to your config directory"
>>
>> So you get a clean QGIS environment. All settings where stored in your
>> config directory.
> 
> Oh, this makes QGIS not use Windows' registry? Nice, thanks for the hint!

Yep, in this way it is easy to have different QGIS environments (with
different settings and plugins for example)...

Note that for QGIS3 Nathan is busy/almost ready to create a way to
define configurations from the gui (and with it remove the different
ways of storing all this info between OS's), see
QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals (QEP) 82

https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/82

Regards,

Richard Duivenvoorde