PortableApps.com Platform Bug Report and Feature Tracker

Please report any bugs you find with the platform here. There is a separate forum thread for localization discussion and another for apps that need an update. Bug reports made in comments will be deleted once added to this categorized list. Duplicate reports will be removed. Fixed bugs are listed in the PortableApps.com Platform Changelog. Bugs fixed or features added in our internal build that will be included in the next release are marked with an asterisk (*). Last Updated: 2013-04-21

Known / Confirmed Issues

• Beta theme preview doesn't show metro icons
• Beta white default theme right-hand text invisible
• Custom categories with unicode are lost on next run (workaround: open the PortableAppsMenu.ini within the PortableApps\PortableApps.com\Data directory in Notepad++, switch encoding to UCS2-LE and save)
• Apps aren't selected by default in updater in screen-reader friendly mode. Will either work to select them or default to update all when none are selected.
• Platform crashes after 100+ refreshes due to GDI leak, can happen quicker if you have 100s of apps and update dozens at a time. [50% fixed in release]
• Can't rename or delete categories (feature coming soon)
• Cannot upgrade platform while another platform in another location is running
• App-launched URLs do not let user select browser (coming with integrated file associations)
• On resolution changes, menu moves. May be able to pin it.
• The box "All applications are up to date" appears below other windows
• Empty ns*.tmp directory left behing in the TEMP directory after platform upgrade
• Wallpaper switcher: disables Win7 wallpaper slideshow, no GUI
• 120dpi: menu not scaled, some icons large/cropped, black boxes (custom dpi)
• Wine-Specific: Black boxes, button hover states stick when dropdown appears
• Updated/App Store says 'install complete' even when some fail
• Get error if click Get More Apps while auto-update in beginning is running. Possibly wait or better error.
• MB/GB/KB not translated in drive free space and not updated immediately after locale change
• Warn user when they haven't picked anything but click Next
• Context menu button not functional when using keyboard mode
• Smoothing out, speeding up scrolling
• Allow alternate temp or possible permission fix when TEMP invalid and platform won't run (workaround included)

Upcoming Features Confirmed Coming In An Upcoming Release

• Windows 8 style checkboxes under Windows 8
• Ability to disable menu tooltips
• Ability to double-click apps to launch
• Ability to select to install all languages in Options for apps installed via the app store
• File associations built-in rather than needing eXpresso or Portable File Associator addons installed
• Automatic proper closing of running portable apps on close/eject
• Selectable close/eject/minimize buttons in the lower right
• Custom theme add, select and remove
• UI options for advanced features that don't yet have them
• Customization of the folders' (Documents, etc) name, icon and location to open, ability to add folders
• Ability to remove apps from the smart list
• Ability to run platform from read-only media. May skip this.
• Ability to search app directory
• Windows 7 task bar customizations
• BAT file on start and exit for advanced users with platform env vars available
• Ability to cache apps to improve menu start/refresh performance
• Ability to save installers for later use
• Ability to manually specify preferred SourceForge mirror
• Ability to hide Java apps in app directory (off by default)
• Ability to select between minimize to tray, taskbar or auto in GUI
• Manual proxy support for updater and app directory
• Ability to change the icon of an app
• Right-click Command Prompt Here
• Right-click View App Homepage
• Switch download indicator to show MB instead of KB
• Improve multi monitor support*
• Ability to exclude apps from the updater (possibly show unchecked after checked updated apps)
• Ability to manually add apps from other directories
• Ability to adjust app command lines
• Ability to resume dropped downloads (may be in combination with setting specific location for download)
• Customizable systray icon
• Autorun/Autoplay component installable locally
• Ability to disable balloon tooltips in the menu
• Search box repositioned, visible and focused by default (ala Windows Start Menu)
• Ability to re-install and reset apps
• Translation Tool to assist in finding missing and updated strings
• Always on top option
• Ability to hide non-commercial use apps in the app store
• Ability to list out dev test apps in the About Apps screen
• Language-specific Help - Support, Donation, etc landing pages
• Ability to delay auto-started apps
• Ability to have only favorites on front page (no recent or smart)

Possible Future Features (Suggested by Users, Under Consideration)

• Ability to have favorites listed in favorites section and in category in same list
• Settings export/import
• Ability to show installed apps with size, metrics on install/update, used, etc
• Right-click app details (description, size used, etc)
• Reconsider mandatory upgrades of platform before apps
• Ability to remember expanded categories
• Show local Java and .NET installed versions in About window
• Ability to hide apps that don't permit business use in the app store
• Delay apps set to autorun until after the updater has done a check, possibly not starting the ones that require an update

No Immediate 'Fix' Planned

• App directory window is not resizable (limitation of programming language, will eventually be rewritten)
• Apps in nonstandard sub-directories don't automatically work with the updater (keep apps as AppID)
• Must update platform before updating/getting apps (by design as app DB changes)
• Windows Search: If disabled, Windows shows an error when attemping to search "This Drive" or "This Computer". May attempt to detect and fallback to better error. If search has never been used anywhere on the PC before, folders on the PC within %LOCALSETTINGS%\Apps\2.0 or similar are created by Windows Search itself.
• Keyboard friendly navigation uses the less-than-intuitive Windows' default of working with a listbox: Hold CTRL to start selecting, use arrow keys or TAB to move around, hit SPACE to toggle a selection on or off. We're looking for a developer to assist with adding some custom C++ code to the NSIS EmbeddedLists component (Source Code) we use to display this list so that keyboard navigation will work with the checkboxes.
• (Unconfirmed) ESET firewall may cause some large downloads to hang, RogerL contacted them
• (Unconfirmed) Invalid floating point error on 11.0 and up with very large network drive
• (Unconfirmed) Pokki menu messes up the PC's environment variables and/or causes the Windows mutex API to fail making it possible to launch the same copy of the PortableApps.com Platform more than once.