id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component resolution keywords cc 1398 QGIS's processing (sextante) toolbox hijacks grass's .rc file hamish live-demo@… "Hi, if you use the processing (sextante) toolbox in QGIS it overwrites the ~/.grassrc6 file with its own temporary location settings in /tmp/processing. - this breaks the ipython demos which expect the .rc file to be in its unmolested state - this makes extra work for standalone grass users who have to click around to re-find their projects - the toolbox should use mkdtemp() or similar for health and safety reasons - don't mess with other programs' settings, it's rude The toolbox can and should take care of its own GISRC file, through environment variable settings and a temporary copy or clone, and it will never need to touch the user's real copy. See GRASS 6's Init.sh script which does just this, and the live disc's ""gisvm/bin/install_grass7.sh"" script's 'preconfig setup' for a sample, it only needs to be a 3 line text file. cheers, Hamish" defect closed major OSGeoLive8.0 OSGeoLive fixed qgis, grass