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Portable App Development

Discuss portable app development and modification of existing apps.

"Portable" suffix in the menu

Submitted by Bruce Pascoe on April 20, 2008 - 7:47pm

Would it be possible to drop the "Portable" suffix for display in the menu? The front page no longer uses the suffix in the list of updates, and it's kinda pointless in the menu, also. Would it be possible to just have the menu show the base name of the app?

Obviously Mozilla's stuff will have to retain the "Portable Edition" nomenclature, even in the menu, to keep Mozilla happy, but the other stuff... it just seems too verbose.

Unofficial Logo?

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Submitted by digitxp on April 20, 2008 - 3:52pm

There are some times (like now) that I have a breaking need to use the PA.com logo, but I remember that what I'm making is unofficial and that I can't becuse it's trademarked/I don't have permission. Anyone got a good unofficial logo designed for unofficial matters???

How can i add an existing free portable application (i.e. Oracle SQL Developer) to the PortableApps Menu

Submitted by jjakson on April 18, 2008 - 9:34am

Is it possible to add an existing portable application to the PortableApps menu without using the "Install a New App" option.

Im working with Oracle SQL Developer and Jdeveloper which are both portable. It would be extremely handy if i could add them to the PortableApps Menu so that I could access all my portable applications from one point. Can this be done?

These applications don't have the directory structure of the other official portable applications by portableapps.com

John

GoogleEarth Portable

Submitted by seba on April 18, 2008 - 4:00am

Application: GoogleEarth
Category: Education
Description: Google Earth is a virtual globe program.
Notes:
Google Earth is a virtual globe program that was originally called Earth Viewer. It maps the earth by the superimposition of images obtained from satellite imagery, aerial photography and GIS 3D globe.

Perl, Python, Ruby, &c.

Submitted by JCSalomon on April 17, 2008 - 5:32pm

I’m starting work on making a portable version of ConTeXt, a TeX-based typesetting system similar in scope to LaTeX. Some of the associated utility programs, though, require Perl or Ruby. There are efforts at Portable Perl here and here, and Python here, but searching for Ruby turns up only this (two years old, and not integrated into the PortableApps system).

Songbird Note

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Submitted by Ryan McCue on April 17, 2008 - 1:30am

For anyone wondering why Songbird Portable isn't out yet, I thought I'd give you an update. The majority of the code is complete for it, however we are still sorting out code to change drive letters in the SQLite database.

Okay, everyone happy? Now, stop bugging me Blum

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