General Discussion

Howdy!

My name is TeX HeX and I'm the developer of a tweaking application. We are currently evaluating the possibilities of making our app "portable" and thus came across this site. We thought it might be a good idea to ask the people that are dealing with portable apps already what they would expect from a portable version.

Please excuse if this thread is in the wrong forum, but since this is not really a development topic nor about an already existing program, I thought that "General" would be OK.

If I understand it correctly, most users don't have anything against a portable app that copies several files and registry entries to the computer when launching the portable app _AS LONG_ as it ensured that after the use of the app these files and registry entries are removed?

Yadabyte Notes is a pretty innovative take on note taking that’s aimed at "Getting Things Done" practitioners but can be used by anyone.

Features:

1. Fully portable - including the single notes file which can be opened in any browser.
2. Open note format - We use HTML as the format but then parse this internally for the extra features.
3. Perpetual - every note records its history. Reuse, don’t delete.
4. Find/Filter Navigation - we think this kind of navigation is the future of content browsing and searching. It’s very intuitive and, as far as we know, isn’t used anywhere else, yet. Even with a million notes, Find/Filter will allow you to navigate them in the fastest most natural way.

Gimp v2.2.11 has been released, news for everybody and those who may be coding it over to portable status w00t.

Bugs fixed in GIMP 2.2.11
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- fixed handling of EXIF data in JPEG plug-in (bug #303383)
- let gimptool use pkg-config to determine compiler and linker flags at
run-time (bug #324761)
- added GTK+ category in gimp.desktop file (bug #328012)
- fixed guides scripts to allow guides at the right and bottom (bug #328320)
- fixed icons in color picker buttons in Levels tool (bug #325745)
- fixed parameter check in Compressor plug-in
- made the internal help browser the default for all platforms (bug #329888)

Happy Easter to everyone on the Portable Apps forums!

Just found this site. Thanks for the work that you guys put into making these apps possible. I just downloaded & am using the portable firefox.

The question that I have is: How long can you expect a jump drive to last. I've always heard that solid state media would last for a long time (tens or hundreds of thousands of rewrites) but I've only used one in my camera to store images. Now that I'm using it to run a web browser, what kind of a lifespan do you think I can expect?

Thanks for any advice you can offer.

First Bug:
- "My Recent Post" isn't updated properly, it shows "2 days ago" for post from 25th February ...

And Request:
- One option for a forum category: "Mark all posts read" ... it would be good to mark some topich read so that when I again enter the forum I exacly know what's new ...

Hi John,

would it be possible to make the launchers (and their sourcecode) be downloadable alone?
Right now I don't have a broadband internet access and it is really to painful to download e.g. the Portable OpenOffice ZIP just to use its new launcher with my modified (UPXed and rezipped) localized version of (P)OOo.
Thanks in advance.

Cya Ryushi

I use a text editor on my system at work which I do not have ADM rights. Would be nice if someone could see how portable it is. The name is Context and it works with most programs and can be customised.

http://context.cx

Thanks

Just got the update info.
Might want to add it to your blog John.

One thing I've noticed is that there are a lot of really cool apps that are coming out of PortableApps and PortaSoft, but they all look kinda bland. Does anyone know if theres work to come up with a default look and feel that is lightweight, simple, and elegant for the portable apps that are released? Not all of the apps support themes and skins but for the ones that do it would make the releases that much better.