Suggestions: Resize icons; multi-colored zooming fences
Monday, November 30, 2009 by KWLee | Discussion: Fences
Thank you SOOOO much, Stardock. I had a long list of productive activities to accomplish today. Then I stumbled across Fences. It's now half past six in the evening and I'm still playing with it, having gotten NOTHING useful done. [/rant]
Unfortunately (and this is partly Fences' falt) my desktop overfloweth with icons, leading to my own suggestions.
1. Resizeable icons -- from large to "Tiny. Really tiny."
2. Set icon spacing.
3. Allowing setting a different color for each field, the way ObjectDock Plus does for tabs.
4. Field-zooming on mouse hover.
So I could have a desktop covered with a dozen or two fences, circumscribing a hundred or two mini-icons. Each field is uniquely colored -- the yellow fence is Apps; green fence over there is Games -- and fences zoom in on mouse hover so I can see and access individual icons.
Yeah, I know. Fences is really just an icon-pusher, that programatically moves icons around on the desktop, meaning most of the above lies outside its scope. But a guy can dream, right?
Nathanael
Reply #2 Wednesday, December 9, 2009 11:31 PM
Good suggestions for new features, KW.
May I also suggest that a way be found so that when new files/icons are saved to the desktop, that they don't get buried behind a fence but rather be moved outsdide of the fenced-off areas.
I'd also like to see some user definable spacing parameters b e added to the fences--both vertical and horizontal, to keep the fence spacing neat and tidy.
If you really want to get fancy, allow the user to optionally define file types to be auto-allocated to the fence groups so that BMPs could go to one group, DOCs to another, XLSs to another, etc.
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Reply #1 Monday, November 30, 2009 6:12 AM
I would guess that if any of those appear they would be in the Fences Pro version rather that the free version.
Though I can't say if any of those features will be added as you quite rightly point out some of those things may be well outside the current scope of fences.