Portable App Development

Hey there! With all the recent releases we saw this week, it made me think about some of the most popular as well as fantastic open source applications that we have not yet 'jumped on'. Below I've summarized some of the applications I believe are more of a 'high-priority' in terms of development and believe they should get a lot more attention.

Application: Inkscape

Hi,

One feature I would really love is being able to rename entries in the PA menu (at least application names)

Thanks!

How possible is it to add one or more drag handles to the PA Menu window so that it can be resized?

I have only a few apps more than a full window's worth, and it's a real hassle having to scroll up and down, and up and down, ... to launch apps that keep getting pushed off the menu top & bottom, esp. when the window itself is relatively small, and there's plenty of screen real estate for resizing. [Surely others have wondered this too, but my search for this topic came up empty.]

Ta

When I plug my stick into a 1.1 port, the XP generated error msg: "This device can perform faster ..." jumps in before or instead of the PA Menu Autorun.INF. So The PA Menu tray load gets blocked and nothing appears in the tray.

Is there a Q&D workaround for this, or is it s.t. for which a slight programme tweak possible?

[I have a few older ThinkPads I can't bear to part with which usually have USB 2.0 PCCards stuck into them at home. Not always so on the go. This might also be an issue for anyone stuck using PA on an older machine.]

Ta

i got migg33 portble edition and windowslive mesenger portable edition

how about adding a 'update installed portable apps' function to the portableapps menu?

I know this is probably a simple task, but I can't figure out how to do it. I need the launcher to modify the registry entry for soulseek everytime the drive letter changes. It needs to go from

"InstallPath"="\\System\\Apps\\Soulseek\\Soulseek"

to whatever the current path of Soulseek portable is. I know this is pretty simple to do with ini's, but is there a way to do it with registry entries that require double \'s?

Also, what launcher should I look at to add to different registry entries to the same .reg file? I have HKCU/Software/Soulseek and HKCU/Software/Soulseek2

im useing diablo2 as an example, just replace diablo with what your file names are

Get Bat-To-Exe-Converter
http://www.download.com/Bat-To-Exe-Converter/3000-2069_4-10555897.html

Make a new folder the G:\PortableApps\
im going to name mine d2
enter the folder
Copy the program FOLDER into this directory
G:\PortableApps\D2\Diablo II

now make a notepad file in the G:\PortableApps\D2\ directory
copy or write this in do not write in the ( )

cd Diablo II\ (folder containing program)
Diablo II.exe (name of exe that starts the program)

Hello

Because there is no general update and upgrade function for the installed apps, when i want to update i go on the portableapps site. i have to open every programm and check which version is installed and if there is some newer one (exept some progs like firefox or thunderbird which can make update themselfes)

It would be great to be able to see the programm version in portable apps for all programmes installed via paf.exe archives.

my idea:
for example add one more txt file called version.txt in the App or Data Folder of every app.

I have created a Lego icon theme for PortableApps.
see what it looks like here:
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Vakhi/Thumbnails/image_01.jpg

you can download it here:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?umbmm24iuvw