Portable App Development

Well folks I think I created a Portable Firefox for Linux.

It works, I tested it on my USB stick and it was so super simple.

If anyone wants to try it out (and if the devs want to tweak it and add it to the list of apps) below is the download link **NOT SELF PROMOTION - IS A WORKING PORTABLE APP FOR LINUX THAT I'VE YET TO SEE DONE**

Also note, This was tested so far on a USB stick and hard drive on Linux Mint 3.1

[link removed by moderator JTH due to licensing]

Just decompress and run startfirefox.sh and be sure to give me feedback, bugs, what systems it runs on, etc.

Is it possable to edit the PortableApps Menu to allow Non-PortableApps.com applications? I currently have 53 portable applications on my drive, 48 are not from portableapps.com. If I could get a copy of the source code I would add a button that will launch a GUI allowing the user to add other programs. In addition I would allow the user to choose the location for the installed programs and documents folders. Great Job with what you have done, Thanks.

-BluePlanet

Alright I am almost finished with MoinMoin Portable Beta 1 but when I launch it a second time it does not work, because the launcher is not moving the "wiki" folder in Data\settings to App\moinmoin

Here is the .nsi:

SkipSplashScreen:
		;=== Check for data files
                IfFileExists `$EXEDIR\Data\settings\wiki\` MoveSettings
                IfFileExists `$EXEDIR\Data\settings\wikiconfig.py` MoveSettings
		IfFileExists `$EXEDIR\Data\settings\*.*` MoveSettings
			CreateDirectory `$EXEDIR\Data\settings`

	MoveSettings:

I have four ideas. Two of them are related to the development of the PortableApps.com Menu; and the other are relative to the forum (1 ideas forgotten, 1 in a loooooooooong time, 1 pending answer):

First, to the PortableApps Menu: resuming, is a schedule plan and support for modifying the menu in colour, font (colour, size), size, etc...

I would like a schedule plan for PAM, with exact dates. I want the new menu desperately and I would be more calm if I knew the exact dates, either for the next release, either for the 2 years away release.

This should be an interesting idea since most portable app programs have this program, it would allow us to to store passwords, and use this passwords to securely access all the sites that we wanted.

Hi!
A PAM-Mod-Theme called 'Jukebox'.

Preview & Download

It's for R29 and above (perhaps R31?).

I think I have an idea onhow to run java from a portadrive but it keeps backfiring on me. I copied the registry settings for java into my template and I want to use a getroot command to change the drive letter in to the correct one and then write it to the registry. (it does the local backup and stuff too) Whenever I try to compile it, it says "writeregstr requires 4 parameters, got 5"

any ideas?

this could be used to change the settings file of a program to use the current drive letter too.

really want to know how to making my own PAM themes, anybody can help me step by step? thank you before.

so sorry for my bad English

Is there a way with nsis to change a line of text in a file when the loader loads ?? I need to change a few config files at loader runtime to include the portableapps drive letter

Link to the EPL (From Wikipedia): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse_Public_License

Im a bit confused, I really wanna make Eclipse Portable (distributing Eclipse with a launcher), if it is illegal to distribute Eclipse with a launcher, I'll just make a launcher for it.