General Discussion

I'm unsure if this is suggested before but what about an integral Portable Apps 'registry' file. Something that is usually put in windows registry will be put in PA-Registry file (only when its important for other apps).

For example, a portable python saves in PA-Reg.ini its location so PortableBlender can find and use it as well as other apps that might require Python installed.

Would this be something usefull for SOME applications so they can be aware of eachother a bit? Maybe not so extensive that all apps save all their settings in the PA-Registry to avoid clutter.

9/28/2007 at 1:57 PDT

The more I think about portable applications, the more I like the idea. I'm not so thrilled about the portability aspect as the ease with one can backup and restore.

Does Anyone Have Any Different Splash Screens That Would Look Nice?

I Would Like To Use A Different Picture.

Anyone Have Any?

One That I Would Like To Change Is The Firefox Splash Picture

Now that Steve, Ryan and Marko are on board and several others will soon be, I'm thinking we need to have some developer profiles in the development or about us section. Just a quick bio. Maybe a headshot. Link to their blog on here (which will be re-introduces soon... finally), Etc. That way, we can be sure folks are getting proper recognition... and it will be handy for folks when applying to university or a job to show experience on a large project like this. Any thoughts on this? Or thoughts on other ways to be sure folks get recognized for their work?

Hey I checked the forums for a solution but couldn't find anything. I was wondering if there was a way that all of the programs running off of the jump drive would close, once I pull the drive out of the computer? I'm asking because I'm using the apps at work, and I want a quick fail safe that I can pull to protect myself.

I've been thinking about how we can make things easier on getting new developers on board, since there's more and more interest. So, what I'm thinking is we'll do a couple things. First, we'll make it easier to host new apps on the SF project. Second, we'll let the release techs be able to post these new apps. At the moment, Ryan and Marko are release techs (in addition to me).

I am totally new to all of these, so if I sound ignorant that is because I am. The main reasons that I want to download the portable apps to my pocket hard drive is because I do not wish to inadvertently be infected with virus and spywares from the Internet, and because I often need to use the computer in the local libraries and I do not wish to leave traces of my personal info there. Please bear with me. I have several dumb questions to ask you:

While I have a working package of Damn Small Linux in PortableApps.com Format that doesn't have an extra command line window ready to go, the QEMU included with DSL has a closed library (FMOD for sound) which means that it doesn't qualify as Free Software and, thus, can't be hosted on SourceForge.

So, I'm looking for someone who can recompile it without FMOD. If that means no sound, that's fine for now.

QEMU is written in C and compiled with GCC.

I just noticed this.
On SourceForge, PortableApps.com is listed as the #38 downloaded project of all time!

http://sourceforge.net/top/topalltime.php?type=downloads

Congratulations to John and I hope we make #1 soon
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Ryan McCue

Upon reading some discussions I seen some mentioning of including freeware / shareware portable apps. I would vote against including it to the applications pages for several reasons:

- Other sites already doing this
- Freeware could always switch license or restrict usage somehow
- Open Source more likely to keep support