Portability can be implemented in different ways, I will provide several examples below: The most important about portable version of a program (or a program running in portable mode) is that all settings are saved in a configuration file ( Config, INI, JSON, XML, etc) inside program folder and nothing is written neither in AppData nor in Windows Registry. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Crow\Crow Translate As the portable version of QTranslate does not write neither to Windows Registry nor to AppData the user can easily move the program from machine to machine with all its settings.Ĭurrently Crow Translate saves settings to Windows Registry: RequestĪs I mentioned above QTranslate has a portable version- one needs just to download the archive, extract it, run the executable and all settings will be saved in a configuration file ( Options.json) in a sub-folder ( Data) inside program folder. Yet it does not (yet) have one of the virtues of QTranslate- portable version. Testing Crow Translate just confirmed my expectations- the program is a keeper. NET, no Java, no abominations like JavaScript/Electron), cross platform and open source, clean interface, decent customization options. Screenshots and programming language usually can tell a lot so even before testing Crow Translate I supposed I would like the program- native (written in C++, no. As sooner or later I will have to switch from Windows to Linux (Windows 8 will be my last Windows version as I have not even considered updating to spyware Windows 10) I decided to have a look at Crow Translate. QTranslate is a well-designed and mature program but it is neither cross platform nor open source. After using QTranslate (desktop program) and Translate Man (browser extension- Chromium, Firefox) for quite some time, several days ago I came across Crow Translate (on AlternativeTo).
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