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LOGAN-Portable
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Suggestions for Portable Apps menu

I admit I just installed PortableApps and had to update (because of a crash on win 2000) to v1.0.1. Then I also installed most apps available on the Applications page.

Now I have some suggestions:

[1] The ability to collapse groups of Apps (for example Open Office) or a way to (sub) categorise the shortcuts in the start menu (using a + or something). This way a listing could be kept fairly small and for example games can be put into their own group.

[2] On hovering on a title, instead of "click to launch this app" a short description could be given. This could be usefull for people who start using these apps and havent yet learned the type of App. For example for Audacity Portable "An audio editor and recorder".

[3] Get more apps function could list the available apps (those who arent installed yet) in a list. When (checkboxes to select) clicked it could download and install the apps selected. This would save people from individual downloading various apps.

[4] On a similar note as above, a kind of Auto Update functionality for menu and apps. A simple way to keep the apps installed up-to-date.

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PS. Concerning browsers. Flash can use local storage which stores small files on the user's PC. When I checked it seems that Flash (by design) still stores and retrieves the files from the current PC. While cookies may have been dealt with, the Flash 'cookies' still are not completely portable. I dont know if flash is embedded in the browser. (What about other browser plugins?)

{EDIT} I noticed a C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugins that was created by firefox for flash

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Suggestions for LOGAN-Portable

Search before posting :P, there have all been requested, and I think some of the auto-updating, or at least the "Get More Apps" change might be changing in the next release, or something along the lines of that.

Sit tight, categories might come soon. For not, they're in the unsupported PAM Mod in the Beta Testing forum.

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Thanks, I agree I should

Thanks, I agree I should search, but I had my head full of thoughts.. many came while writing. Thats why I put them all in this post. Sorry to wasted the bandwidth.

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