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jjw24 / Wox

Launcher for Windows, an alternative to Alfred and Launchy.
http://wox.one
MIT License
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[Suggestion] [Low priority] A portable (dot zip file) release is more intuitive (and convenient) for portable user #190

Closed pc223 closed 3 years ago

pc223 commented 4 years ago

This is not a huge thing, but if it's not take too much of your time, I think a portable zip file release is more intuitive (and convenient) for portable user :smile: (compare to let .exe file extract itself, and copy it around)

jjw24 commented 4 years ago

So we have the proper portable mode now, which you can trigger from the settings menu. Once it's in portable mode you can move it around, and for new updates you can directly trigger the update via query or from settings menu, and the update will update the launcher even if it is in portable mode. This means you dont have to redownload the exe everytime there is an update.

pc223 commented 4 years ago

So we have the proper portable mode now, which you can trigger from the settings menu. Once it's in portable mode you can move it around, and for new updates you can directly trigger the update via query or from settings menu, and the update will update the launcher even if it is in portable mode. This means you dont have to redownload the exe everytime there is an update.

Personally, I still like the "standard" way of doing portable program more, just one zip file, and done, no need to config anything. Right now, after I downloaded the .exe file, I have to do a bit of config, and copying things around, a little bit messy, compare to good old zip release :smile:

jjw24 commented 4 years ago

Personally, I still like the "standard" way of doing portable program more, just one zip file, and done, no need to config anything. Right now, after I downloaded the .exe file, I have to do a bit of config, and copying things around, a little bit messy, compare to good old zip release :smile:

Hmm not 100% sure what you mean. Wouldn't you just need to down the exe once install configure, enable portable mode. Then move it where ever you want. You can keep the program up to date either via auto updates or manually. You wouldn't need to redownload the exe again and reinstall, or have I missed something sorry?

pc223 commented 4 years ago

Personally, I still like the "standard" way of doing portable program more, just one zip file, and done, no need to config anything. Right now, after I downloaded the .exe file, I have to do a bit of config, and copying things around, a little bit messy, compare to good old zip release 😄

Hmm not 100% sure what you mean. Wouldn't you just need to down the exe once install configure, enable portable mode. Then move it where ever you want. You can keep the program up to date either via auto updates or manually. You wouldn't need to redownload the exe again and reinstall, or have I missed something sorry?

Yeah, the thing is the first step after download the .exe file is we have to open it up, and config it, and move the appdata folder (from a obscure location, not many user know where to look) to a different location (Like my USB). Compare to zip release, we extract it to a folder, and done, no config needed :smile:

I mean that's the "standard" way that many portable software release that way, no dependencies on auto-update, just a simple, "download, extract, and execute" workflow.

jjw24 commented 4 years ago

Haha OK fair enough. Maybe in the future we can consider having something from the exe to extract to a given location if for portable is selected.

jjw24 commented 3 years ago

Just going to close this as this repo is no longer maintained, feel free to open the issue in Flow if this is still a problem