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SPS in symenu
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Drakkn Posts: 22
28/10/2015
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Hi Gianluca,
I like the whole idea of SPS and I would like to use it but I have an issue with its implementation into symenu. The symenu SPS plugin does not allow me to customize the home directory. I have a main portable apps directory and symenu is under that directory. I'd need SPS to manage the items it has in that directory and not the program files directory under symenu. I use 3 separate symenu directories to basically have profiles. I have a normal launcher, one that includes extensions, and one that has extensions and autorun startup items. I copy my symenu.zip file and the icons into the other 2 installations when I modify the menu list and readd my autostartups on the 3rd one. Anyways, if I use SPS in this way I only have access to those programs in one of the "profiles". It would give me errors in the others because the program files directory is empty in those. If SPS can be used in a directory above itself and not mess with any of the other programs I could use it. I think SPS is a great concept and have read your posts on it at portablefreeware.
Thanks for a great program!
-Drakkn
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Gianluca Administrator Posts: 1274
29/10/2015
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You are speaking about the SPS physical folder aren't you?
We have two different problems with SyMenu folder management in general:
1) there are some users that want to customize the SPS logical root folder (the context menu root) because currently SyMenu puts every new SPS program in its root and then the user has to move it inside the proper subfolder;
2) there are some users that want to customize the physical ProgramFiles folder location.
Your request is slightly different because you would like to customize the SPSSuite physical folder location. Unfortunately this thing is impossible. You would lose every configured SPS SyItem because the relative path for all of them is ProgramFiles/SPSSuite/[SuiteName]/[ProgramFolderName].
The other two requests instead are easily achievable but the difficult thing is to offer a smart UI to do this task in an easy way.
I could introduce these kind of customization first for advanced users and then for normal ones. In my language it means that an advanced user is able to change the SyMenu configuration file (SyMenuConfig.zip) by hand. Naturally with some detailed information about that.
My hesitation is exactly because of the SPS thing. SPS Manager is more linked with the file system than the normal SyItems. If it doesn't find an installed SPS it removes the corresponding SyItem. It means that if you force the ProgramFiles root folder in a certain location and SPS Manager doesn't find it because you did a mistake, it removes all your relative SyItems and you should reconfigure everything.
But I think that an advanced user should be able to manage this kind of complexity.
For this reason the talk is opened. Let me know what do you think about that.
P.S. I often suggest to consider the possibility to use the symbolic links to achieve any particular need regarding the FS organization. The symbolic links could be hard to master but guys... you can do anything with that.
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Drakkn Posts: 22
29/10/2015
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2) there are some users that want to customize the physical ProgramFiles folder location.
I think this would work great. Even using a symbolic link. My drive is fat32 though to support uefi booting from it also. If I could move the programfiles directory to wherever then configure the spssuite to look for it there.
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