Preferences and settings in a Django Project
IMHO if the settings depends on user preferences I think a database is the way to store them, not files. Settings files are inherent to project's settings and database storage (normally) is the one who should persist dynamic user preferences.
I want to add to my django project the ability a user to set his own settings, and Django should remember that when the user logins. I also want my project to have some global settings that will be the same for every user. E.g
before a user logs in the system the will be a language set for every user.(global setting)
but after the user is authenticated django will switch to his prefered language. What is the best approach for that? My thought was settings file for the global settings (language, locale  etc) and a settings application for user-specific preferances. The user-specific preferances might have to do with very simple but specific staff like colors of appearence of things etc. Is creating a settings app the right approach? No code just need a point to right direction first before implementing