Could you explain the advantage over http://rawpedia.rawtherapee.com/Making_a_Portable_Installation.
Thank you
André
@gaaned92, Well for one, someone has done the work for you, 
Also, it is self contained and includes the option and cache folders within the installation. You unpack the 7z exe file and away you go.
As I said, I made it to test a portable environment. You are free to follow the instructions you posted and build your own.
Thanks,
Partha
I did a quick test of your portable Gtk3 version. The only issue I’ve found are the missing arrows in front of the folders.
Hi @partha,
The portable Gtk3 version is running fine here, great job. One issue I’ve found is that when I double click on folders they don’t expand. It works fine if I use the keyboard (hit the “+” key).
Other than that it looks great!
@dngimage, @TooWaBoo, yes, I seem to be suffering from the missing arrow syndrome.
Just imagine the arrow next to the folder and click just left of the folder. It should work.
I have not been able to figure it out on Windows or OSX. 
Well, it seems I’m a little late to the party, but as a long term RT user, a big thanks to the devs and support team around building and making RT widely available to us. I’ve used it a lot on Windows and after the pain of Win10 I’m back on Linux (Gnome Ubuntu) as my primary OS and it’s just a joy to “apt update apt upgrade” and see the latest version come down.
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Congrats to the Team RT and a big big thank you for the excellent software.
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I’ve found the reason for your missing arrow syndrome.
I’ve deleted(!!!) the folder icons in “gtk3\Frameworks\share” and copied the folder icons from my standard installation (…RawTherapee\share) to “gtk3\RT\share” and voilà, the arrows appear.
Re Rawtherapee 5 released, congrats to the team! - #17 by partha
Are the builds good, have they been tested? Are the arrows in the file browser missing?
Yes, the arrows are missing. That’s the only issue I’ve found compared to the standard installation.
And only on the gtk3 build btw.
Hi Partha,
Just tried your portable gtk3 version on a Windows 7 Professional machine. It doesn’t start and gets in an infinite loop, due to a missing dll: librsvg2,2. Looked into the zip file, but it wasn’t there. I got it from another place, copied in the bin directory of RT and now it starts. Apart from the missing arrows, everything works fine.
Can you also make a link to your portable Gimp gimp2.9-cc as standard in the Preferences?
I only use this when I with someone I want to demonstrate the capabilities of those (and other open source software) and there is only a Windows machine available (even my laptop is equiped with linux).
I could isolate the arrow issue down to the svg-files. For some reason RT wants to read the svg-arrow-files, which Windows can’t read. Removing all svg-images solves it. But there is still a different. RT is loading now the 24 x 24 arrow.
To solve the whole issue, delete every icon size and scalable folder except the 16 x 16 folder.
@TooWaBoo,
What is going to happen to the TooWaBlue Themes? Are you going to change to Gtk 3.18 so they will appear in the dropdown? Just asking, not a priority.
There’s a naming issue in the current download of RT5 Gtk3.18.
To fix it by yourself, rename the file TooWaBlue.css to TooWaBlue-GTK3-_19.css.
DON’T CHANGE ANY OTHER FILENAME
…or download the RT5 Gtk3.22 version from here:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B2q9OrgyDEfPS2FpdDAtMVI1RG8
…but there is bug in Gtk3.22. Some curves will not fully expand and you have to hover any button after expanding to fully expand them. Thats why it’s not the recommended version, but I like the Gtk3.22 version more (Looks nicer 
)
No one had raised the problem before that builds using GTK+ <=3.18 don’t show the TWB theme (by design, but it’s a new design) so unfortunately they’re not visible when RawTherapee is built using <=3.18. This also means that nobody tested those themes in <=3.18, only in >=3.20. @TooWaBoo before we add that to the git repository, have you verified that it works as expected in <=3.18?
The theme is compatible with Gtk3.18 and was used by many users since a Gtk3.18 version was available. e.g. @heckflosse
The name convention was established a couple of weeks ago, so in the past there was no need to use a special name. Before Gtk.3.20 I was using it with Gtk3.18 the whole time.
@TooWaBoo theme handling code was committed two months ago in commit 55759c04. As I haven’t seen anyone mention renaming themes in this forum, nor has anyone complained of missing themes since then, therefore, unless users figured out that the theme had to be renamed on their own (which is unlikely), I conclude that the theme has not been tested by users on <=3.18 since then, and much changed in the last two months.
It must be compatible with GTK+ 3.20-3.22, otherwise the file name is wrong. I assume this is a language barrier misunderstanding.
Before I commit, please confirm that TooWaBlue version 2.40 was tested using GTK+ 3.18. Additional points if it was tested using GTK+ 3.16.
TooWaBlue v2.40 is compatible with Gtk3.20-3.22
TooWaBlue v1.94 (That’s what we’re talking about right now) is compatible with Gtk3.18
But this version has only the name TooWaBlue.css and that’s why it is not shown in the preferences in the current Gtk3.18 installation.