Re: Finally a launcher for all portable programs?
Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2015 2:30 pm
Well I better define my role as the guy that keep everything consistentthe_watcher wrote:I understand that Symenu is your app and you can do things the way you think is the best.
SyMenu is surely my app but it is the community app too. Without the suggestions that daily I receive from the most involved users the program wouldn't be the half than the great app is today.
The first suggestion you gave is interesting but unlikely practicable.
SPS works because it is in charge of everything: it drives the file system organization, it creates its version file regardless the real app version, it knows how to handle the installation package...
Pretending that a program can rebuild all this information starting from a folder which contains some files is hardly feasible.
Your second suggestion is better. You said why is not possible to indicate to SyMenu that in a certain folder there is a program that must be linked with a certain SPS. This is a really really interesting approach. I don't see a lot of problems to implement it.
When you link a program to an SPS SyMenu must surely move it to the SPS folder and reorganize it in its expected way but it could work. I have to study it.
In the meanwhile, in you case, download your programs again, because if this thing is really practicable it'll take long.
Another hint for you.
When you download a program through SPS you can copy the configuration from your old program folder to your new one. In fact usually the portable programs store their configuration in a physical file easily recognizable. In that way you don't need to reconfigure your programs by scratch.