List view for regular Fences (not Folder Portals)

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I purchased a license for Fences and have a question about the display options. When I create a regular Fence, not a Folder Portal, I would like to display its contents in a proper list view, with neatly aligned icons and filenames.

Currently, the icons are arranged in a grid, and depending on their names and spacing, the layout looks rather messy and inconsistent. I understand that Folder Portals support List and Details views, but I specifically want to use regular Fences containing desktop icons and shortcuts.

My questions are:

  1. Is there a way to enable List or Details view in a regular Fence?

  2. If not, is there a setting that allows tighter, more consistent alignment of icons and filenames?

I would prefer to keep using regular Fences rather than having to reorganize my desktop shortcuts into separate folders just to get a clean list layout :) 

Thanks for your help!

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Hello,
Sorry to hear you are having issues. 

  1. Unfortunately, there is no available option for that currently.
  2. The only available option for regular fence is its sorting function.

Just as a suggestion, you could also create a portal Fences that link to your Desktop folder and than you can have list view on that Desktop Folder portal Fence

Thank you,
Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Hi belabeier, this is something we are looking into yes! Specifically for Details view.

If we were to convert a regular group into a folder portal, we could not manually order…ie regular icon view we can’t do without forcing an automatic sort. But details view, once we get through some complications, should work. So, this is something very much on our list.

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Hi guys!

I tried the suggested Desktop Folder Portal approach, and so far, it seems to work reasonably well. After two restarts and hiding the regular desktop icons, things are behaving themselves. For now, at least. So thanks for the tip!

I'm definitely looking forward to seeing a proper Details view for regular Fences in one of the upcoming versions.

To be honest, I initially thought this would be a fairly straightforward feature to implement. There's a little tool called deskview.exe that already provides similar functionality under Windows 11, despite not having received an update in what feels like several geological eras.

So I figured that if this old utility could pull it off, surely Fences could too. But I suppose Fences is doing quite a bit more under the hood, and things aren't always as simple as they look from the outside. Famous last words in software development, I know.

Anyway, thanks again for the quick responses and the insight into what's being worked on. Looking forward to the next versions!

Greetings from Munich,
Bela

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

Great, glad to hear that.

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant