ParaView Settings 2.0

As things stand

As a first pass, I am going to ignore view-specific settings and only focus on application settings.

We currently have a mechanism for global application wide settings that relies on Qt's QSettings which saves out a ini file in the user's home directory. There are several things saved in this ini file

1. User specific application preferences such as default view type, default remote render threshold. All of these preferences are settable using the Edit | Settings dialog.
2. User specific application preferences for components across the application, such as default color table, default render view background color, state of advanced button on properties panel, etc. There options are not accessible from the Edit | Settings dialog, but are scattered throughout the application UI.
3. Qt state such are window size, position, dock panel visibilities and positions etc. These are not explicitly controllable from any user interface.