Seriously the only reason i got this free trial was to arrange Icons on my desktop how i want them to be.  This is just basically grouping with auto arrange.  I sometimes have busy backgrounds and i liked the idea of having my icon groups with the background blurred behind them but this Auto-Arrange BS is untenable.  This is a well made program but why run a 2-mile marathon and then give up 5 feet from the finish line. 

Itoo find it EXTREMELY disappointing that one cannot arrange the icons in the "fences" in the order-position desired ...

this is extremely disappointing and makes me hate colorless customizing windows 10 even more ...

WILL YOU EVER ALLOW USER THE FREEDOM they deserve???? 

Hi... I specifically registered here just to say that...its 2019 and this still hasn't been addressed. It's been 9 years since the first post! I can't believe that any software developer will not listed to their customers on something so simple. Nobody wants to arrange their icons based on name, date, or whatever someone thought it's a good solution. It also doesn't allow me to arrange my desktop icons the way I want them. Unbelievable. It becomes so annoying to the point of getting rid of it, and just use folders to place all my stuff.  I work in the consumer research area and I haven't seen such ignorance to customers complains, especially in the own company's forum.   

milenakukova

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Hi... I specifically registered here just to say that...its 2019 and this still hasn't been addressed. It's been 9 years since the first post! I can't believe that any software developer will not listed to their customers on something so simple. Nobody wants to arrange their icons based on name, date, or whatever someone thought it's a good solution. It also doesn't allow me to arrange my desktop icons the way I want them. Unbelievable. It becomes so annoying to the point of getting rid of it, and just use folders to place all my stuff.  I work in the consumer research area and I haven't seen such ignorance to customers complains, especially in the own company's forum.   

Which means, they are probably NOT going to address it. I didn't even get a reply to my thorough explanation in April of 2017.

mybeachpaint

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Quoting milenakukova,

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Hi... I specifically registered here just to say that...its 2019 and this still hasn't been addressed. It's been 9 years since the first post! I can't believe that any software developer will not listed to their customers on something so simple. Nobody wants to arrange their icons based on name, date, or whatever someone thought it's a good solution. It also doesn't allow me to arrange my desktop icons the way I want them. Unbelievable. It becomes so annoying to the point of getting rid of it, and just use folders to place all my stuff.  I work in the consumer research area and I haven't seen such ignorance to customers complains, especially in the own company's forum.   

Which means, they are probably NOT going to address it. I didn't even get a reply to my thorough explanation in April of 2017.

Well its now 2021 and this is still not implemented in Fences 3.x - so I have to agree with you.

In response to RedneckDude's comment above - I agree that a response was made but not that it is the only way to do what is requested. Fences already provides a vertical scroll bar for those times when there are too many entries to fit within the defined fence boundary.

I would have thought it possible therefore to provide a positioning grid with respect to the top left corner of the fence, and implement a vertical and horizontal scroll bar if the users chosen location falls outside of the fences boundaries - whether these are altered by either resizing the fence or the screen resolution.

To be fair I don't know how this has been coded, so don't know if the application has a mechanism for maintaining data regarding each icon - but it obviously retains some data as it uses this for doing the fence sorts.

Anyway I had taken the Trial route and determined this problem pretty quickly - which is a shame as I also want to have position control.

Just have to keep looking for alternative solutions.

Is this still a problem with the PRO version? I bought object desktop but this really says something about Stardock, not going to recommend in the future.

I've been using Fences 3 for a number of years now, and I've always found it a little annoying at times. I have a fence with shortcuts for games I have installed, and I would so so so much love that when I uninstall a game, and the shortcut gets deleted, and it just left a gap where the icon used to be rather than rearranging all of them. You get used to things being in a certain spot, and when things shift, it throws you off so much. Would be much better to have an option you can use to automatically fill gaps/rearrange the icons if you wanted to.
I totally understand them rearranging if the size of the fence is changed, but so long as the width isn't changed, there's really no reason why you shouldn't be able to have static icon placement within a fence. 

Still no fix? 😔😔

It would appear not unfortunately!

This was almost a dealbreaker for me during the trial, but I noticed a workaround that worked.

1) Create a Folder Portal fence (e.g. fence contents are based on a folder of shortcuts).

2) On the fence Sort By Date modified and in my case reverse, so newest shortcuts appear first.

Then you basically ensure your date modified on each shortcut corresponds to the order you want chronologically from new to old, i.e. anything you want to take to front you can open the shortcut's properties, type a space in Comment then delete it, then Apply, and the modify date will update to current date/time and take it to front (press F5 on the fence to refresh it).

Agree it's a strange omission, especially when they implemented drag and drop re-ordering.

I completely agree with the desire to have icon control similar to the desktop and not like file explorer. I think those are fair analogies.

Does anyone know if Fences 4 has implemented this?

I'm keen to know still. As much as the sorting by date modified is one way, it's not ideal. One question I have about it though, is what does it do with "This PC" and Control Panel icons and such? Do they stay at the top like they should? Do they get reorganized by fences if the resolution changes? 

So now it's May of 2023... it's been 13 years (started in 2010) since this "Feature" (Functionality) has been discussed (with pleadings), very, very disappointing... why Stardock doesn't develop a "100% Transparent Icon" (Invisible), with an option to populate a Fence with all Trasparent Icons (No Sorting) and allow the user to replace each or any of them individually & when the user deletes an Icon, Fences would replace it with the "Transparent Icon" ~ no effect to sorting / appearence!