Does anyone read previous comments?

Desktop Icons cannot be above Windows.  You need to blame Microsoft for their placement...

Quoting mhutch1478,

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As I mentioned in my message - make them available from the system tray

Yes, but icons in the Systray are not 'Desktop Icons'.  The systray and Start Menu are levels above the desktop and are set to be visible above open windows when in focus.  That's the level that Docks work at as well.

Fences is designed to manage the Desktop Icons at their level.  It cannot relocate the Desktop Icons from anywhere other than the desktop.

Think of it as like the Start10 program.  That works at the start menu level and doesn't change its level.

Both programs are designed to not impact on 'expected' functionality.  When levels are messed around with there will always be action conflicts...often seen as 'click through' ...where you want to activate one thing...but end up inadvertently activating something below [behind] that you didn't see.

All of that is not to say that a program could mimic or copy the desktop icons to another level [they would no longer be desktop icons] and be accessible at another level...exactly as Docks do [which is why they exist]...

Please enable per layout customizable keystroke to restore it.

This should solve the need to open Fences and manually restore the proper layout when you change the primary monitor configuration without restarting the pc (e.g. docking or extenal monitor plugin).

Thanks

Hi!

I cannot even imagine a Windows without Fences, but some improvements are still possible   :

- Improve the multimonitor management: options to move a fence from monitor #1 monitor  #x, options to better manage system that works with a variable number of monitors (for example laptop used in office with 2 monitors, but in mobility with 1 monitor)

- Improve the roll-up: include a roll-down option and a new option to reduce a fance to icon (double click on fence icon to reopen the fance); 

- In case a fance can be reduced to an icon, we can imagine fences containing fences......

- Tabbed fences might be a wonderful add-on for very clogged desktops

- Better rules for fence spacing, grid for positioning, better rules for icon distances

- Possibility to have sticky positions for individual icons in a fence

- For folder portals, possibility to specify scrolling rules (horizontal scrolling, vertical scrolling or both, with a defined icon grid size)

- Additionally to snapshot, I'd like to have the possibility to save and load "fences profiles", possibly for single fences of group of fences, possibly editable with a regular text editor

Keep the nice work on! Thanks

I read through several pages here, but don't have time to read through all 17, so apologies if this has been requested before.

I would like to see an option to either "mouseover" or "click titlebar to unroll" a rolled-up fence. Too often in my day-to-day use, I see my rolled-up fences momentarily unrolling, then rolling-up again as my mouse passes over them. It's distracting and a little unnerving. A single click would be all that's necessary, as a double-click would interfere with the "hide everything on the desktop" feature. 

Nep

Thus far, it is.

Sean Drohan
Stardock Support Manager

It's a feature in DeskScapes 11, which I am working on translations for this very moment to be honest.

Sean Drohan
Stardock Support Manager

Desktop icons cannot be above windows...no matter whether rollup or not.  It's  a Microsoft limitation.

How about the ability to dock roll-up fences on the side of a monitor?  

Please put the up arrow always at the same place and add a home icon to go back directly to the first folder.

Thanks

Per Fences settings for:

* arbitrary icon placement (aka, don't auto sort within fence) with stretchy scale between icons and of icons to "fit" the fence

* arbitrary icon size

* icon label hiding per icon (because some icons are descriptive enough without text) 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/1cqcgg97920ydrt/fences%20v4%20suggestions.png?dl=0

Disclaimer:  I just came back to fences since not having used it in YEARS, so maybe some of that is possible in v3 and I just haven't found it -- but if possible, none of those are obvious.