Fences: A clean desktop for the cluttered user
Thursday, February 5, 2009 by Draginol | Discussion: Personal Computing
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Stardock’s new killer app: Fences. Download it, it’s free!
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Reply #42 Friday, February 13, 2009 2:53 PM
Reply #43 Friday, February 13, 2009 3:56 PM
Reply #44 Saturday, February 14, 2009 3:45 PM
Reply #45 Saturday, February 14, 2009 3:55 PM
Like if it worked inside folders, too.
OM NOM NOM NOM NOM.
But it's useful enough for me as is, so YMMV.
Reply #46 Saturday, February 14, 2009 4:34 PM
I liek it most for the hide desktop icon feature. That rocks.
Reply #47 Saturday, February 14, 2009 4:38 PM
I'm also abusing the "transparency" feature to cast a hue over my desktop wallpaper, without altering the image or how any of my applications look, because, quite frankly, it's cooler that way.
Reply #49 Saturday, February 14, 2009 5:48 PM
Are you guys psychic? LOL
I had been trying something like this manually, using a desktop background that divided my screen up. Needless to say, my clutter outpaced my discipline. Fences came along at a perfect time.
Keep up the great work
Reply #50 Sunday, February 15, 2009 2:07 PM
Downloaded this arvo....and best thing since sliced bread......
now have a tidy, organised desktop.....love the speed at which the icons appear and disappear....far faster than before..
a couple of people saw me setting it up this afternoon...and want link sent to download....so..nice marketing tool as well...
thanks very much for this...can reduce my objectdock to a little less cluttered too....
Reply #51 Sunday, February 15, 2009 2:33 PM
Is fences only for cluttered users?
Will neat users not get it?
Ah, I will have to turn cluttered to download it because I am loving this... no ..not that much I love my dreamgirl but still love it..
But If I abandon my tidiness she will elope. Hard choice.. Any suggestions? 
Reply #52 Sunday, February 15, 2009 2:40 PM
Is fences only for cluttered users?
Would neat users not get it?
Damn! man... ...another incentive to make your pc cluttered...
Reply #53 Sunday, February 15, 2009 2:52 PM
I thought I wouldn't like it until i saw the double click > Hide icons feature.
If it hasn't been mentioned anywhere yet, the label fonts need to be customizable, Default font is far too big imo.
Otherwise, gotta say, i like it. 
Reply #54 Sunday, February 15, 2009 3:41 PM
I love it.
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Reply #55 Monday, February 16, 2009 12:07 AM
An option to exclude context menu entries (Edit and lock fences) would be great too. 
Reply #56 Wednesday, February 18, 2009 3:02 PM
Reply #57 Wednesday, February 18, 2009 4:28 PM
Still can't get the icons to hide here. XPP SP2, all the .net updates. Fences hide fine, just not the icons in them.
Reply #58 Wednesday, February 18, 2009 5:46 PM
Fences is known to have trouble with some other apps hooking into the desktop, some vista, more on XP. Running fences on a dream cause minor problems on vista, and doesn't work at all for people on XP, and I've seen posts about a bunch of other software too. Check the official fences forum for those reports.
Reply #59 Wednesday, February 18, 2009 6:52 PM
Quoting Leauki, reply 8It says it is free for "personal use".
I am an Object Desktop Ultimate current subscriber. Can I use this at work?
(I use a Macintosh at home.)
You're fine. Have fun.
Does this apply to those of us who are not yet subscribers? I'd love to use this at work.
Reply #60 Wednesday, February 18, 2009 7:11 PM
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Reply #41 Friday, February 13, 2009 1:54 PM
The originally released version was working fine on my XPP machine. Updated my NVIDIA 8600M drivers yesterday and now the fences hide with double-click on the desktop but the icons within them stay put on the desktop. Same behavior as the .037 update was demonstrating.