Fences 3.1 suggestions

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1. Option to not unroll a Fence on mouseover, or at least delay it.  I'd just like to be able to stack all my rolled up Fences on the side of the screen, and drag them out in the middle of the screen when I need them without them unfurling immediately.  Perhaps just an option to open them manually with the mouse instead of automatically when you touch them.

2. Some kind of utility to find out what fence an item is in ... some program icons could belong in several categories (Fences) ... for example, I can never remember if I stowed PDF utilities in my MS OFFICE fence or my UTILITIES fence.  And Zeus forbid you should accidentally put an icon in the wrong Fence altogether -- I just want to ask "where is that thing?".

3. Fences within Fences so you could create a hierarchy of sorts.

4. Have Fences generate and maintain a Menu matching the arrangement of fences so you have an alternate way to launch programs.

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Thanks for the feedback.

 

  1. We've seen a few requests around handling rolled-up fences.  We'll have to see what we can do.
  2. If you know the name of the file select the desktop and type the first letter of the file. Windows will cycle through them all. A way to open the desktop explorer window might be a thing we could try too
  3. So complicated, unlikely
  4. I don't think I understand what you are asking for here.  Can you provide more detail?

 

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

re: 4. Have Fences generate and maintain a Menu matching the arrangement of fences so you have an alternate way to launch programs.

Assume you have two Fences --

  • MS OFFICE, containing WORD and EXCEL and
  • UTILITIES, containing NOTEPAD and 7ZIP.

Obviously, Fences knows the names of the Fences and the their content.

What I suggest is to have Fences generate a regular Menu similar to the Windows Start Menu, containing the following:

FENCES MENU

  • MS OFFICE
    • WORD
    • EXCEL
  • UTILITIES
    • NOTEPAD
    • 7ZIP

The advantage of having Fences manage this menu would be that is would always be synchronized with your Fences organization.

Start11 - Customize the Start Menu and Taskbar in Windows 10/11.