Can't get qgis_global_settings.ini working on macOS

[Frzk]

Hi,

I'm trying to deploy QGIS (3.10.7-A Coruña) and a few plugins in a corporate environment under macOS >= 10.14.

I'd like to put the plugins in their own directory (i.e. /Library/Application Support/QGIS/QGIS3/plugins/) so I can easily upgrade things independently.

My idea was to create a global config file with customEnvVars set to "append|QGIS_PLUGINPATH=/Library/Application Support/QGIS/QGIS3/plugins/" and customEnvVarsUse set to true.

From what I've read here and there (and also from QGIS source code), putting a file named qgis_global_settings.ini in one of the StandardPaths should be enough for QGIS to pick it up:

QGIS/src/app/main.cpp

Line 908 in 1eb778e

QStringList startupPaths = QStandardPaths::locateAll( QStandardPaths::AppDataLocation, QStringLiteral( "qgis_global_settings.ini" ) );

But for some reason, it just doesn't :-(

I checked the paths from QGIS Python console:

>>> print(os.getenv("QGIS_GLOBAL_SETTINGS_FILE"))
None

>>> from PyQt5.QtCore import QStandardPaths
>>> print(QStandardPaths.locateAll(QStandardPaths.AppDataLocation, "qgis_global_settings.ini"))
['/Library/Application Support/QGIS/QGIS3/qgis_global_settings.ini']

If I launch QGIS from the command line with the --globalsettingsfile option set to /Library/Application Support/QGIS/QGIS3/plugins/, it works as expected (but that's obviously not a solution for the end-users).

Any idea what I'm doing wrong ?
Is that the expected behavior ?
Any idea how I can achieve my goal here ?

Thanks a lot !

[gioman]

Any idea what I'm doing wrong ?
Is that the expected behavior ?
Any idea how I can achieve my goal here ?

@Frzk please ask questions in the users or developers mailing lists, if it turns out to be a bug then open a ticket here.

[Frzk]

Hi Giovanni,

Thanks for you answer. Also, sorry for posting here, it seemed to me it was the right place.
I forwarded my question to the developers mailing-list.

Please also note, FWIW, that it's working properly with 3.14. I'll close this for now, and maybe re-open later, depending on what happens on the ML.

Thanks again.