On 18-07-2015 09:53, Jürgen E. Fischer wrote:
We could switch to file based configs and add -configpath
%USERPROFILE%\qgis-config-@version@ to the shortcuts (@version@ would be the
actual version) - that way each version (but not each installation of the same
version) would use a different settings.
Oh please, please do it...
This would be a _vast_ improvement for a lot of QGIS users. Introducing
the posibility of using environment variables (%USERPROFILE%) and tokens
(@version@) in the configuration file would make it possible to create a
QGIS installation that was independent of the registry and the absolute
location of the QGIS directory.
Instead of have lines like this in in the QGIS2.ini file:
*Configuration\SAGA_FOLDER=E:/OSGeo4W/apps\\saga*
with an absolute path definition, You could have something like this:
*Configuration\SAGA_FOLDER=%OSGEO4W_HOME%/apps/saga**
*
or this:
*Configuration\SAGA_FOLDER=@qgis_bin_path@/../../apps/saga**
*removing any references to absolute paths. And having the configuration
parameters collected in a ini file makes it simple to find and edit any
specific parameter using a simple text editor instead of mucking around
in the registry.
Installation of QGIS could be as simple as unzipping a zip file (with a
little help of some DOS voodoo in the QGIS startup .bat file)
Regards
Bo Victor Thomsen
AestasGIS
Denmark
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