PortableApps.com Platform 1.6 Pre-Release 0

Works just fine for me thus far.

Whoa! this is just plain awesome. Tested on Vista SP1, no problems so far. Will torture test later.

schweet, new features works good on Vista SP1.

This looks great so far John. Quick test on Vista SP1

Everything works great except the progressbar. I see the progress bar when I hit F5, but on startup, the menu takes a while and then it appears without showing a bar. It just appears like it always did.

I'm on Win XPSP2.

I have mixed feelings. Horray for the theme swap to-be-added, and the most used apps feature looks great, but the sad part is I cant use it because I have a 4GB flashdrive with practicly every app on the site on it (Plus quite a few betas) and I NEED my folders. I really want to use the new menu so badly!!!

Edit: Wow. That looks way more noobish than intended.

When I've added some apps as 'Move to Top' and I then refresh app icons the moved apps return to their original places but remain bold.

They go back to top if I remove one of the 'Move to Top' settings

I'll get a picture uploaded when I find out why it won't currently

EDIT: This is on Vista SP1

This is great! I'm loving the autorun feature.

After trying to uninstall a program, the uninstaller takes more time than I think is necessary to uninstall the program (I can manually delete it a lot quicker) + remove the icon from the menu, and then after it does the uninstaller hangs until I exit the PA menu.

App: Gnucash 2.2.8
Name on menu: Gnucash Portable (Outdated)

"Move to Top" is a nice interim solution, but I think I'd prefer something like what ASuite does, with the most-run apps on the bottom. Most people keep the menu on the bottom-right, so listing the pinned apps at the bottom of the menu, where it's closer to the cursor, makes more sense than just putting them at the top of the list.

Because I'm curious how "move to top" is going to work once the PAP supports categories. Right now it takes the app out of its normal place in the menu and pins it to the top. If it's in a category though, it won't make much sense to rip it out of its category. In my opinion, it would be better to leave the icon where it is and just pin an additional shortcut to the menu.

I've found a bug...

When I click on "Options --> Refresh App Icons" All the icons that I've put on the top, move back to their original spot. It still has the line under it and it's still bold, but it's back into it's original spot in the ABC sorting.

Right-Clicking (on any icon) and selecting "Refresh" fixes the issue, but.. Options--> Refresh App Icons doesn't. Just leaves it the same.

I think this is because the option--> Refresh App Icons is still using the code from the last release of the menu. Where as right-clicking and refreshing is using new code.

(Edit:Whoops sorry, I just found out the bug has already been found, sorry.)

Everything works good here. With the send-to-top and send-to-bottom features, I can put my most-used apps on the top and stuff I rarely use on the bottom. No more scrolling; it's not as clean as folders but it's a nice start. Autostart works as well as I'd expect; I've got Firefox and Notepad++ starting on menu launch and that works great.

I love the "Automatically Start" feature. A nice addition to this would be the option to automatically start minimized.

Thanks for all your work.

I agree with the removal of the bold text for the most part, except I still think the links on the right should be bold, to differentiate the "system links" from the app list. You might think it would be distracting to do it this way, but that's how ASuite does it and it's not distracting at all.

Hello Group;

I like bold text. It is easier for me to see. But if there ever is a larger offical PAM

Frank D. Hubeny

Nice work, I can't live w/o PortableApps.

Ideas:

Flag an app to always Run As Admin like Autorun.
Have a visual indicator that a app has been flagged to always Run As Admin (i.e. mini shield overlay).
Have a visual indicator that a app has been flagged to Autorun (i.e. I'm drawing a blank on this on).

This would allow the user to flag an app to Autorun and Run As Admin at the same time. Also the visual indicators would allow one to quickly scan the list and see which apps have been flagged.

Keyboard navigation. Win+P opens the menu, at the moment, but then have to switch to the mouse to select app to run. It'd be nice to be able to have focus in the list and use the arrow keys or start typing to select an app and hit enter. If this could be added then some nice keyboard shortcuts could be added as well.

Bugs (sort of):

If you Hide all apps user cannot right click and get context menu to show hidden icons to undo the hide.
If you Move To Bottom an app and then uninstall it the horizontal separator is left behind.

i really like the new PAM. However, I just wish you could have a option to change theme so you can use other themes than the original and you can easily revert to the original setting. Also this would make it easy so that you can just select where the file is located and you do not have to alter the "X:\PortableApps\PortableApps.com\App\DefaultData\Theme" location. I also believe the theme could be held in a zip/jar file to reduce space used and the file you choose is also in a zip/jar file.
-OR-
You could have an option for a saturation selector so that you could choose your own color.

... sorry for the late reply.
https://portableapps.com/node/18730#comment-115660
has the updated German local.

Marko

Simply beautiful

I like how hovering over the systray icon tells you how much space in left on the drive. Is the line that appears near the top of the menu, level with the portableapps.com logo text meant to be there? Also I found that multiple single clicks on the systray seemed to cause it some trouble with bringing up the menu or putting it back down. This was irregular as it sometimes occurs after five clicks and the longest was 32 clicks before the issue happened again (I was looking to see if I preferred the fade in/out option on or off). In retrospect this may just be the host system having trouble keeping up but thought I'd bring to your attention just in case.

Many thanks and keep up the good work

Works really well! Works nicely at home on my Vista SP1 and at school with XP SP3

Would it be possible to put something like the installers have that show what is being deleted and a progress bar?

I am a huge fan of PA! Keep up the excellent work, John (and all the rest of the contributors)!

Any news of when this "1.6 Pre-release 0" will move to "Pre-release 1"... or even a real release? ...and what about the time horizon for 2.0 with the much anticipated folders/categories?

P.S. This is really not meant to be unappreciative - just curious and exited like a child before Christmas :o)

I've been using 1.6rc0 for about 2 months now on my main drive & I haven't run into any problems. Having that said, I have run into a minor annoyance or two.

1) Portable Apps Icon getting hidden from view, even when noted "Always Show". -- I believe this annoyance is with the space indicator in the hover tips. Whenever that changes, Windows always seems to "forget" the setting.

2) Space indicator doesn't update automatically with the hover tip -- I always have to pull up PAM to get the current indicator, which THEN updates the hover tip info.

These aren't major issues to force me back to 1.5, but they're things that I'd like to see fix in the future... if possible (assuming it's not a Windows thing)

Bug...

On Windows 7...

If you have more than one background (new feature), it only restores the current one, and doesn't change anymore.

I know Windows 7 isn't out yet, but you should prepare for it when it does become official.

It seems that if you hide all the apps on the menu you cant get a right click menu to restore them.

There are also many issue with refresh a move to top and bottom drawing the seperator bar but those are probabley allready known.

I am wondering when will you release the next pre-release, any estimates?

menu starts fast

scrolling is very slow
TAKES ABOUT 5 SECONDS TO LOAD APPS (up from 1 second in 1.5.2

overall good

ps. drive space is showing the space for C: but with PortableApps.com (F:)

works just fine over here.
but one thing i miss is the possibility to add own folders in the menu just like pictures, music, documents, and so on.
i want my games folder!
joz

Will the next release have an eject script? (as it seems from the translations)
Whenever that will be....

If so i hope its a good one not a crash all portable programs one.
For example if OpenOffice is open it will ask to save your work like it does when closing it normally and only then close.

I've been using Automemscan to do a virus scan before any apps on the portable drive launch.

https://portableapps.com/node/11553

I really like this feature (was using automemscan's autolaucher as well)

Any change a startup virus scan could be built into the StartPortableApps.exe?

Currently I've just used the PAM autolauch feature to run the Automemscan.exe, which runs the virus scan and then lauches all the other programs.

Not perfect as the PAM is running before the virus scan... though I can't think how that might cause any virus problems....