Qt Creator Telemetry Plugin

The plugin is used in Qt Creator and Qt Design Studio to send telemetry data. It is based on KUserFeedback.

Checking out sources

Run git submodule update --init to set up the git submodules.

Building the plugin

The plugin needs to be built against a Qt Creator version, and the matching Qt installation. This happens by setting CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH to the Qt and Qt Creator build directories.

You also net to set CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX. Either to the Qt Creator installation directory, or to a separate new directory - you can let Qt Creator load the plugin then by passing the directory with -pluginpath.

To configure the backend you need to set the server credentials:

USP_SERVER_URL: server url

USP_AUTH_KEY: authentication key

If USP_SERVER_URL and USP_AUTH_KEY is not set, no data will be send.

Example build

mkdir build && cd build
cmake -G Ninja -D "CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=<QT_DIR>;<QTC_BUILD_DIR>" -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=install ..
cmake --build .

Afterwards you should be able to launch Qt Creator with -pluginpath argument:

qtcreator -pluginpath install

Data Storage

The configuration and so far collected data is stored in the local user settings.

Windows: \\Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\QtProject\UserFeedback.QtCreator

Linux: $HOME/.config/QtProject/UserFeedback.QtCreator.conf

macOS: $HOME/Library/Preferences/com.qtproject.UserFeedback.QtCreator.plist