This thread is now over two years old, it would be interesting to get some sort of feedback on ANY progress regarding this application.
At this point, considering the years that have passed, there must have been some kind of progress in terms of optimization and features? Unfortunately, the information flow on this is not available but I would be very interested to know. Please correct me if im wrong and point me to a thread if one exists.
This application is probably the most anticipated in your arsenal, in terms of a clean desktop and for those who don't need a visual beautification of the Windows GUI.

I know I'm far from the first person to request this, but I'd LOVE to be able to use my custom filters to sort link icons by protocol, or even by RegEx.

This would enable both advanced users, and gamers like myself, to sort icons by a TRULY custom filter. For example, a Fence for games that has either a URL filter for links containing "steam://" or "com.epicgames.launcher://", or even a RegEx searching the URL for a path to a subfolder (for example, mine are all in X:\Games).

Obviously it might be a bit of a challenge to retrofit RegEx into the software, but even something that'd be able to filter by protocol or subfolder would be an amazing addition.

I would find it very benificial when I have open windows on my desktop and I need to use Fences that the Fence would drop down and come to the front of all open windows that are on my desktop so I could see the contents of the Fence in use, this could be made into an option that the user could toggle and would ease the problem of having to rearrange the open windows just to see the contents of the Fence. Kind Regards.

DITTO!

Stackable Fences would be welcome

I think that it's been mentioned before, but I'd just like to add my support for the request to add an 'On top of other Windows' feature, so that Fences roll out (from either top, bottom or side) over the top of any other windows already open.  It's a pain having a fence roll down from the top of the screen, only to have the icon for program you need obscured by another window already onscreen.

This is a thread about what people want to see in next version of Fences and if people want to see the fence rise above open windows they write it. Some half explained answers about different desktop levels or someone saying what Fences is or not is not a feature request or an answer to request people have!

Any folder I place just visible on desktop or taskbar can be opened with "mouse over setting" and expanded over other windows but that also change all of Windows behavior on desktop and doesn't roll back the folder and that is a unwanted effect. That's one of several resons apps like Fences among other exists. To do that what Microsoft not given their user other than in limited functions back in the old Powertoys days.

My old freeware dock that is no longer developed and ended the support with Windows 7 can still open any folders or menus above if I so chose but if a folder is added it have to be a "click" to open but it will close after a app is started however it can't save files or shortcuts organized that way. But a file can at least be dropped as copy on a folder icon or opened by the app icon. And that's only because it can rise above and that without moving or minimize any open window!

Because of how it worked and supported ended and things got worse between Win 7 and 10 I ended up from on one Fences 2 licens to 3 licenses for Fences 3 both at home and work.  But nothing big has changed after Fences 2 so I still use my old dock everywhere because of that last missing thing in Fences, it can open above! 

So that is the only crucial function I care about for Fences 4 future on my Pc's even if there has been some other good request.

I should also add...Docks have been around since the dawn of Windows [and before], and have always been intended to open over active windows.  They never had 'desktop icons' on them, only [perhaps] copies of those icons...as an alternate access to them.

Alternate shells to replace 'Explorer.exe' [the Windows Shell] have been around forever too...and various could actively be altered to locate icons etc of all sorts outside of Microsoft's shell design - that was the whole idea of alternate shells.  You coded every aspect of what accessed the Kernel.

I spent many years dealing with the Z-Order of the GUI in Litestep and understood fully the effects of getting 'levels' wrong, and decades later am coding flight sim panels [2D] which also needs z-order settings to display components of a dashboard correctly, and make bits of them interactive...just like the icons on a Windows Desktop.

Typically there are 5 levels [maybe 6] in the Windows GUI.   One of my cockpit panels has 11.  Move any one of them and click-through fails...one way or another...

Yes it would be very nice to see the icons in the fences without have to close or resize your active windows. Without this functionality, I find fences almost useless.

Also I click activation on a icon would help alot

Very important in my case is to allow in Fences config to have option to select file manager which will be used when is Fences folder portal opened in.
If I'm using another file manager than Windows default File Explorer Fences navigation works not - after clicking to any folder in folder portals always opened in that file manager.
It will make Fences much more powerful.

Miro

I would like a setting that will allow a roll up fence  (from bottom or top) to be above any other windows if selected. Now when I have 10 windows open and I'm looking for files in my  roll-up fence it comes up beneath all the other windows and I have to move a bunch of windows out of the way to get to it.

Thanks!