[Qt-creator] Share external tools setting among team members

[Ziller Eike]

> From: qt-creator-bounces+eike.ziller=digia.com at qt-project.org
> [qt-creator-bounces+eike.ziller=digia.com at qt-project.org] on behalf of Alfonso
> Chartier [alfonso.chartier at gmail.com]
> Sent: 27 March 2013 16:42
> To: qt-creator at qt-project.org
> Subject: [Qt-creator] Share external tools setting among team members
>
> Hi,
>
> I am interested in sharing external tools that are set up in Qt Creator with my
> colleagues (I'm referring to the tools set up under Tools / External /
> Configure...). Ultimately, I'd like to have a standard set of tools here,
> including miscellaneous scripts and in-house utilities, that all developers have
> access to without the need for them to set them up manually. Is there an easy
> way to do this? What file do these settings get stored to?
>
> On a more general note, I'm wondering if a larger set of Qt Creator settings
> could be packaged together and easily shared among a group of developers. I'm
> thinking coding style, keyboard shortcuts, external tools, API documentation via
> .qch files and perhaps even other settings not listed here.

Hi,
the directory where Qt Creator saves these configurations depends on the platform,
on Linux/Mac this is ~/.config/QtProject/qtcreator,
on Windows %APPDATA%/QtProject/qtcreator, where %APPDATA% is e.g.
<drive>:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming on Windows Vista and later.

External tools are saved at <configdir>/externaltools, color schemes at
<configdir>/styles, custom snippets in <configdir>/snippets, coding styles at
<configdir>/codestyles. These are read directly from
there at Qt Creator startup, so just dropping the files there should just work, e.g. by
bundling them in a zip, and unzipping them into the configdir (unzip keeps existing
directories and files). .qch files have to be registered manually in the Qt Creator
preferences, currently there is no way to have them automatically pulled from somewhere.
For keyboard shortcut schemes the same, though there is no way to have multiple schemes
there anyhow, besides exporting and importing (which is different to color schemes and
coding styles, which I think should be made more consistent).

> While exporting of
> some of these settings is supported individually (e.g., coding style and
> keyboard shortcuts) and the rest can be set up manually, it would be far more
> convenient to have a way to bundle all these settings together and just import
> them all in one go without requiring multiple steps or the need to manually set
> them up. I think this would be very valuable when using Qt Creator in a
> collaborative environment.
>
> What are your thoughts on this?

Just from my own experience here, most settings are too varied and indiviual to share (often the sharing of the *existence* of the setting is what's most needed ;) ). I see sense for a collaborative environment to share snippets, external tools, coding styles and documentation though, not so much for the rest.

Br, Eike

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