Version: 1.9.9 (using 3.5.9, Kubuntu (hardy) 4:3.5.9-0ubuntu7.1) Compiler: Target: i486-linux-gnu OS: Linux (i686) release 2.6.24-17-generic I am reading all this positive news about Kontact running on Windows and Mac now. Not that I really like Windows, but sometimes I have to use it, when I am traveling and do not use my laptop. For this I have apps from portableapps.com on a usb-stick. Since there is no Kmail and so on, I use Thunderbird. So it would be really cool, if there was a contact version able to run from a usb stick. Some thoughts: - May be with an option to resync with the version on the laptop after returning (for Mails on IMAP this in not necessary, but for the addressbook and korganiser it would make sense). - Really cool, but I guess not possible would be a portbale multibinary for Windows, Mac and Linux, which runs on all OSes.
If done, it should be done for all KDE apps...
Not for all. From my opinion it only needs applications which contain your own data or specific environement. Kopete and Konqui would be good candidates, because you have either your accounts or your bookmarks in it. A portable videoplayer would make less sense, since a native one should be fine.
But at this point, why not kdegames or konversation or kwallet?
What I mean is that if it will be implemented a way to have portable applications, it should be possible to apply this system to every application.
If someone needs it, kwallet would make sense. Konversation I do not know. Personally I do not see the need for playing games while travelling and not having my own pc. How to do it, I do not know. But I suspect that it would need to be something like klik for linux. Something that packs the necessary libraries with the apps defaults put the $home in a subdirectory of the app itself so that the configs and application data is stored there and not on the computer.
I think this would be nice, it would also be useful for many other kde apps. For example, I have a umbrello file which I would like to share with some other people using windows only. Having a portable version of umbrello would make that much easier (I could just give them the file and umbrello on a usb stick). Also with konqueror (for web site testing).
(In reply to comment #1) > If done, it should be done for all KDE apps... agreed. That's an unrealistic wish report. Having kontact on a usb key also implies that you have all the required libraries and runtime dependencies (kdelibs, kdepimlibs, kdebase-runtime, Qt.. and all the stuff these modules also link to or require at runtime.