Adding a couple more sorting options to the ones windows already has. The brilliance of clearly grouping icons, and allowing a viewing porthole is supplied by Fences. The brilliance of that placement is supplied by the user. which you probably don't want to see all the time. Using a horizontal scroll bar, you can then slide over and see all of the *supporting* icons on that row. a tall vertical strip, your apps laid out neatly. Now, you make a portal with Fences that expose only the applications themselves. To the RIGHT of EACH icon are support files for each application in the stack. It is the GROUPING of icons, and creating a visual PORTHOLE to the group.Ī porthole to a fully user defined placement of icons is VERY valuable.Ī group of icons, stacked vertically, say, graphics applications: Photoshop, Modo, 3D Max, Corel, etc. (ex: My rules are not available)Īnd no, the basic advantage of Fences is not 'placing' icons. #2, 'User selected rules' from a limited list of selections, is a restraint. But KILLING basic functionality in the process is the stupid part. It's actually a regression: 'You can't put them where you want, but we do let you sort them in a few cool ways' is just not that impressive, especially at the cost of the core idea of making your desktop look how you want it.Īdding functionality by making additional smart sorts *available* should indeed be lauded. Not listening to the user is so horrific that no windows system is that way, to my knowledge. True indifference or non functionality in such a circumstance would be the OS placing the icon, and not listening to user need. This makes the user controlled placement the absolute foundation, it's true basic functionality. You have basically said: 'First, allow users to move icons as they will.' then any other enhancements, such as grid snapping behavior go ON TOP of that.

' Windows' leaving of icons where they are put by the user isn't a 'basic functionality' of the OS GUI.it is simple indifference/inaction on the part of the GUI.' and tarnishes an otherwise excellent piece of software IMHO.įences really is nice, so far as it goes. Making such things a 'pro' feature is nonsensical. But people arranging their icons is at the HEART of the desktop experience. Placing icons is a functionality that is so bedrock in its nature that it should come before nearly every other feature in Fences. Placing icons where you wish, is so basic to the functionality of any windowing system, that to kill that behavior is simply unforgivable. If the pro version is the only way to achieve the same basic functionality that was available in windows for the past few decades. Hey, at least you have air conditioning and a radio, right? That's like getting wheels on you car as an option. Quoting Zubaz, reply 3The Pro version lets you arrange bu name, date, size, how often it's used or jsut dragging into the order you want.

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