Preset the setting of the QGIS option for all users

Question

In our administration, QGIS should be made available to everyone.

Is there a possibility of the setting in the option e.g. Settings / Options / General to remove the checkmark in the application "Show QGIS news on welcome page" for everyone in advance? Or Preset the reference system for everyone under Settings / Option / KBS?

The problem is that the settings are saved in the respective user profile and the basic setting is used when QGIS is started for the first time, i.e. without optimizing the options. It is possible to start QGIS via a cmd.

If it is possible, it would be nice if someone could send me a template or a tip. P.S. we are using QGIS 3.18

QGIS is provided on a Windows server for the entire administration. The call is made via a cmd. The options are saved in the user's profile. It would be nice if QGIS would access an option setting that was preset by me and not the default.

My question is similar to the following question: Centralizing QGIS connections for multiple QGIS installations?

Answer 1

Too many possibilities

Option 1: You can replace the content in QGIS3.ini file of your users. In your particular case, replace NewsFeed\httpsfeedqgisorg\disabled=false with NewsFeed\httpsfeedqgisorg\disabled=true

To find QGIS3.ini file, in a PyQGIS console, execute

import os
from qgis.core import QgsApplication

print(os.path.join(QgsApplication.qgisSettingsDirPath(), 'QGIS', 'QGIS3.ini'))

Drawback: you need QGIS already started once

Option 2:

To manipulate settings (and behind the scene, QGIS3.ini file), using startup.py, you can do for your particular option

settings = QSettings()
settings.setValue("core/NewsFeed/httpsfeedqgisorg/disabled", True)

The less intrusive IMHO: you adapt to existing e.g if first start and you patch on the fly the config but all config on existing install do not change

Option 3:

Start QGIS on one machine. Do your config. Then, you need to copy the profile folder you created on this particular machine to default path for QGIS profile on users machines C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Roaming\QGIS\QGIS3\profiles\default\. <USER> is the current user name you are connected with on your Windows session. You may need to replace some absolute paths in QGIS3.ini file before copying.

Useful in my opinion for first install of QGIS, not for existing QGIS install as you will overwrite existing users particular config (the profile folders contains not only GUI config but plugins, custom models, custom expressions, ...)

Option 4:

Dive into this recent project to prepare a custom installer to choose every options when you install QGIS https://github.com/haubourg/custom-osgeo4w-qgis

Caution: not intended for beginners but more for system administrators than end users