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suggestions for future PA version

not sure if this is the right place and i know some of the things i'm writing have been said before.

1. re-size the PA window size - i know its hard since the background theme images are fixed sizes, so instead of allowing dynamic resizing, maybe allow predefined sizes. basically i need more height Smile

2. sub folders - i know many asked for it and got workarounds and so on...
but nothing beats the need for real sub folders/categories.
just looking at the utilities category in the software catalog of PA you see its a place to dump all those unknowns. but if you had sub categories it would be much better. easier to find things.
i add custom categories but it is becoming too much.

3. in general more frequent version releases. better have many small releases with small changes than big releases with big changes but far apart.
the forum is very active so is the maintenance of keeping the apps up to date, but nothing shows more of an active development than frequent releases.

4. add following apps that i think are needed for the PA as a platform
*lacuna launcher - helps launch multiple apps in parallel. I sometimes want all my security apps up (and not by default) or all my communication apps (mail, messenger, ...) and it helps by wrapping those with ll and just running 1 app and everything i want goes up.
*sumo - wrote about it in diff thread, and maybe there are others like it.
but if PA is a platform for portable apps and i can add non PA catalog apps (like i do a lot), i need to keep them up to date manually.
PA only gives auto updates for apps downloaded from PA, so with sumo (or similar) we can have sort of that capability for our apps.

5. performance - the auto update and the opening of the apps catalog is pretty slow. not sure why but it is annoying each time i do it.

don't want you to get me wrong or misunderstand.
PA is an amazing platform and my PC at home and at work (and my parents) is based on PA + portable apps.
i install very minimal amount of apps outside of PA (mostly firewall and antivirus).
so i really want this platform to improve.