PortableApps.com Platform

Along with my other topic about typing an application name (which no longer works), selecting one using the up/down keys has never worked, which is kind of an annoyance when my hands happen to be on the keyboard (hence, the reason for using ctrl+alt+space). I would like to suggest making PA fully keyboard accessible, and that doesn't mean assigning arbitrary keystrokes to the buttons on the right, which is the case atm, but that means being able to navigate the menu by arrow keys and typing partial names.

This is PA 10.1.2.

How to do this in PA 10.1.2? Left or right click expands or collapses a category, so renaming a category seems impossible, let alone changing the icon.

For some reason PA makes an arbitrary decision to use Iron to open the support link (and others), which is one of the browser that happens to be installed on my system. My default browser is Opera, so any URL that is opened I want in Opera. Iron is not the default, for anything.

PA 10.1.2 on Windows 7 x64, Opera 12 is the default.

In the latest update (10.1.2), you can no longer do ctrl+alt+space and type the name of an application. In stead, it opens one of the buttons on the right, depending on the keys you happen to hit. Type "th" for thunderbird and the help-button is "clicked".

I understand that the ability to add your own custom fonts was added to 10.1 update for the platform which allows you to take your own fonts with you from computer to computer, however were do you place the fonts to get this feature? I see no setting within the platform, and I don't see a folder within the platform files to place them. How can I access this feature?

Hi Folks

I'm having trouble with Win7 wanting to run Portable Apps as Administrator.

With the launcher named as Start.exe, Win7 wants to run it as Administrator and applies a little shield to the launcher icon on my USB stick. If I rename it as anything else, i.e. "Start1.exe" or "PortableApps.exe", there's no problem.

I'm running the Platform within my Dropbox folder, in Dropbox/Applications/PortableApps.com. When I most recently ran the Platform, it asked me to update, which I did, but the update was deposited a folder down, in Dropbox/PortableApps.com.

Obviously, as a portable app it's not a great amount of effort to shunt the folders around and this doesn't cause problems, but it is equally clearly not how this is meant to work! Not least because if the Platform is in the wrong folder, it doesn't pick up the applications available.

Are other people seeing the same behaviour?

hi all,

There is a list of bugs/disfunction, but nothing huge, that are still not solved:

• Multiple instances of PortableAppsPlatform.exe: If you launch twice the platform, only one is 'completely' loaded and you can see in the Task manager that there are two instances of the PA Platform, the first one takes about 8MB of memory and the second is about only 1MB.

After the update to 10.1.1, pressing keys does not launch the search box as it used to. Instead, now pressed keys seem to act as "shortcuts" for generic the menu entries on the left. Ex. "d" launches the explorer on the Documents folder, "m" on the Music folder etc.

The "/" search launch shortcut does not work either. Now, to launch the search box, it takes two keys, "sa".

This does not seem to be a planed (and documented) change, so I will assume it's a bug.

If so, I sure hope it can be fixed soon. (And if I can do anything to help speed up the fix, I'll gladly contribute.)

Hi,

Would be nice to have the following two features:

1) Ability to install portable apps in a sub directory under \PortableApps (I would like to be able to differentiate between native PortableApps.com and other portable apps I downloaded elsewhere)

2) In the launcher, it would be nice if you could see which actual file the shortcut is pointing at

Thanks,
-Shai