Re: [Zim-wiki] Announcing an installer for Zim on Windows

2009-02-18 Thread Erik Lee
Hi, Brenden, First, I have to thank you for your feat to make zim possible in Windows. Though I'm using it under Linux environ, there's always the necessity to bring my own zim notebook to travel. Since I'm also translating Zim into traditional Chinese, the tolerance of character encoding is alw

Re: [Zim-wiki] Announcing an installer for Zim on Windows

2009-02-17 Thread J.G. Karssenberg (Jaap)
Hi Brendan, I tested successfully today on a XP system without administrator rights. Pleasantly surprised it uses gtk 2.12 - my old install was still on 2.4, so things look much more polished now :) Only thing I ran into is that I had to disable the PERL5LIB environment variable I had set for

Re: [Zim-wiki] Announcing an installer for Zim on Windows

2009-02-16 Thread Jaap Karssenberg
Hi Brendan, Great work, thanks a lot! By accident I talked a colleague through installing on a windows system without admin rights. So I fully feel the pain of installing manually :S I'll give it a test drive tomorrow. Brendan Kidwell wrote: The launcher assumes that %USERPROFILE%/My Documen

Re: [Zim-wiki] Announcing an installer for Zim on Windows

2009-02-16 Thread Dotan Cohen
2009/2/16 Brendan Kidwell : > You can be the one to test it! > Alright, I could installit, I could run it, and I could get to the opening screen. It looks like I could add a new notebook, but double clicking the notebook (or single clicking it and pressing Open) would close the dialog but the note

Re: [Zim-wiki] Announcing an installer for Zim on Windows

2009-02-16 Thread Brendan Kidwell
You can be the one to test it! It should be portable. The entire application installs to "C:\Program Files\Zim Desktop Wiki" by default. The launch script is start-zim.cmd, in that folder. The launcher detects where it is run from and configures the environment variables accordingly, then invokes

Re: [Zim-wiki] Announcing an installer for Zim on Windows

2009-02-16 Thread Dotan Cohen
> You may have seen my message a month ago saying that I was planning to build > a Windows installer for Zim. Well, here you go: > > http://code.google.com/p/zimdesktopwiki-windows/ > > I could not come up with a convenient way to download large dependencies > (Perl + GTK) from upstream sources dur