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...but I 'love' the color customisation in fences. It makes it so much easier to find and mentally organise things at a glance.I would 'love' to have this feature in File explorer.Imagine being able to tag a folder with a 'Stardock color' From then on whenever that folder, or a subfolder, is open in file explorer, that file explorer window is 'hued' in much the same way as fence folder currently is. It would make working with multiple file explorer windows so much easier.The taskbar icon for the file explorer should also be colorized accordingly. (after considering any grouping, or even grouped... or not grouped... accordingly!)
If you navigate back up, the hue colour would adapt.You can maybe even colorize folder icon of the colorized root folder path.
To elaborate further... at the moment, if often soon gets to a situation where it is easier for me to just close every file explorer open, and reopen the ones I need, than to have to root through every window looking for the path I am after. Alternatively, I just end up with four windows of the same folder open.
Hello,Have you tried Stardock's Start11v2 where you can have tabs with customize color.
Thank you,Basj,Stardock Community Assistant.
Thank you for this basj it is greatly appreciated, and I will bear it in mind for 'ways of working'However in this case a key ingredient is having folders open in different windows side by side.In this particular case I am often initially selecting folders to open from a git repo visualisation (although not for what you would consider conventional dev purposes)
I do love fences so far though. Praise the gods for Stardock. Just please keep licensing persistent. As a home user I will leave if that ceases to be an option. Subscription = unreliable in my book. I'm not a company, I can't afford to make my OSes yet another 'cost of living', and I do consider this software to be (badly needed) OS upgrades/fixes. I'd rather just adapt to what I've got, than develop one way of working for third party features OS, then even a small risk of having to relearn adapt all over again because I loose the features in the future when I might have to cease a sub.If it was a lifetime guaranteed sub cost (adjusted for my country's inflation) that would be different, but noone does that.
I don't think Fences was meant to replace File Explorer. The side by side Windows is something toward File explorer which there are few File explorer alternative application that can do that.
Thank you,
Basj,Stardock Community Assistant
Yes. I wouldn't expect it to be a future feature of fences.There are few sources I would trust as much as Stardock to 'mod' my OS with.Also... what's in 'xxx'? Is that where the Stardock games 'fan art' is kept?
You can get something close to it with "Tab Coloring" in Groupy2. I've been using it for this purpose for a couple of years now.You can set a tab color for a specific explorer file path, and any sub-folder navigation down and back up again will retain that same defined tab color.
For example;
Oh wow that's awesome as its Stardock too. (I thought for a moment it was going to be some other third party via cnet downloads). I'll definitely take a look!
Yeah this is great! And 80% of exactly what I'm after, which is a full 30% more that I would reasonably expect to find already exists given I just came up with the need.
(I'd just like to see colorised taskbar icon, and colorised title bar background, and a place I can audit all my 'file explorer color saves', and delete or edit [as you can with custom rules])
Agreed! The one feature I'd really like to see added is the ability to see what file paths or folders have been assigned to a color to edit, or delete, the entries.
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