QGIS is highly configurable through the Settings menu. Choose between Project Properties, Options and Customization.
Note
QGIS follows desktop guidelines for the location of options and project properties item. Consequently related to the OS you are using, location of some of items described below could be in the Project or the Settings menu.
In the properties window for the project under Settings ‣ Project Properties (kde) or Project ‣ Project Properties (Gnome, OS X or Windows), you can set project-specific options.
In the General menu, the general settings let you:
Calculating areas and distances is a common need in GIS. However, these values are really tied to the underlying projection settings. The Measurements frame lets you control these parameters. You can indeed choose:
The Coordinate display allows you to choose and customize the format of units to use to display the mouse coordinate in the status bar and the derived coordinates shown via the identify tool.
Finally, you can define a project scale list, which overrides the global predefined scales.
O menu SRC permite que escolha o Sistema de Coordenadas Referência para o projecto, e para activar a reprojecção on-the-fly das camadas matricias e vectoriais na exibição de camadas de diferentes SRC.
O menu Macros é para editar macros Python para os projectos. Actualmente, apenas estão disponíveis três macros: openProject(), saveProject() e closeProject().
O menu Relations é usado para definir relações 1:n. As relações são definidas no diálogo das propriedades do projecto. Quando existirem relações para uma camada, um novo elemento de interface do utilizador na vista de formulário (p. ex. quando identificar um elemento e abrir o seu formulário) irá listar os elementos relacionados. Isto fornece uma maneira poderosa para expressar p. ex. o histórico de inspecção ao longo de um segmento de tubagem ou estrada. Poderá encontrar mais informação sobre suporte de relações 1:n na Secção Creating one to many relations.
Some basic options for QGIS can be selected using the Options dialog. Select the menu option Settings ‣ Options. The tabs where you can customize your options are described below.
In the Authentication tab you can set authentication configurations and manage PKI certificates. See Authentication System for more details.
The customization dialog lets you (de)activate almost every element in the QGIS user interface. This can be very useful if you want to provide your end-users with a ‘light’ version of QGIS, containing only the icons, menus or panels they need.
Note
Before your changes are applied, you need to restart QGIS.
Figure Customization 1:
Ticking the Enable customization checkbox is the first step on the way to QGIS customization. This enables the toolbar and the widget panel from which you can uncheck and thus disable some GUI items.
The configurable item can be:
With Switch to catching widgets in main application, you can click on an item in QGIS interface that you want to be hidden and QGIS automatically unchecks the corresponding entry in the Customization dialog.
Once you setup your configuration, click [Apply] or [Ok] to validate your changes. This configuration becomes the one used by default by QGIS at the next startup.
The modifications can also be saved in a .ini file using Save To File button. This is a handy way to share a common QGIS interface among multiple users. Just click on Load from File from the destination computer in order to import the .ini file. You can also run command line tools and save various setups for different use cases as well.
Tip
Easily restore predefined QGIS
The initial QGIS GUI configuration can be restored by one of the methods below:
In most cases, you need to restart QGIS in order to have the change applied.