11-24-2010, 10:53 PM -
Hi Yuri,
I have tried that, and have been enjoying the experiment. I'm always amazed how flexible TLB is!
The result was quite impressive, but also learned that I was not even aware of the useful capabilities of Fences. Here are a couple of things this kind of use of TLB misses when used as desktop icon containers:
-The tear down menus obviously are not glued down to the desktop's level, so they can come above application windows, while I prefer my desktop icons to stay below the apps.
-The desktop is not aware of their location, so things downloaded to the desktop can go behind these menus. Fences somehow integrates to the desktop, Windows knows that its icons are on the desktop, and anything downloaded or drag'n'dropped to the desktop gets placed to empty spaces.
-Fences, and the icons contained n them can be hidden / revealed with a doubleclick on the desktop, and actually it's quite a good idea to get a distraction-free desktop.
-You doubleclick to start an app in Fernces just as if it was a normal desktop icon, one click only selects it, which is obviously not the expected behavior in a menu.
Implementing the setup how you suggested was pretty simple, and the result was ultimate eye-candy, I loved it. I could set dimensions (width/height) for the tear-off menus, scrollbars, icon sizes, number of columns, background color, aero effect, transparency, looked just great.
I'm sure I will use that but probably not for replacing the way how I use my desktop now, but maybe to add some extra functionality to it.
Seeing the differences from what I was looking for I think it's quite a big change from TLB's existing features, if I'm notmistaken TLB is not really designed to work with the desktop itself (apart from deskkeys which you made for me, thanks again
) so I guess I stop looking for such a hack.
Might upload these screenshots somewhere though.
I have tried that, and have been enjoying the experiment. I'm always amazed how flexible TLB is!
The result was quite impressive, but also learned that I was not even aware of the useful capabilities of Fences. Here are a couple of things this kind of use of TLB misses when used as desktop icon containers:
-The tear down menus obviously are not glued down to the desktop's level, so they can come above application windows, while I prefer my desktop icons to stay below the apps.
-The desktop is not aware of their location, so things downloaded to the desktop can go behind these menus. Fences somehow integrates to the desktop, Windows knows that its icons are on the desktop, and anything downloaded or drag'n'dropped to the desktop gets placed to empty spaces.
-Fences, and the icons contained n them can be hidden / revealed with a doubleclick on the desktop, and actually it's quite a good idea to get a distraction-free desktop.
-You doubleclick to start an app in Fernces just as if it was a normal desktop icon, one click only selects it, which is obviously not the expected behavior in a menu.
Implementing the setup how you suggested was pretty simple, and the result was ultimate eye-candy, I loved it. I could set dimensions (width/height) for the tear-off menus, scrollbars, icon sizes, number of columns, background color, aero effect, transparency, looked just great.
I'm sure I will use that but probably not for replacing the way how I use my desktop now, but maybe to add some extra functionality to it.
Seeing the differences from what I was looking for I think it's quite a big change from TLB's existing features, if I'm notmistaken TLB is not really designed to work with the desktop itself (apart from deskkeys which you made for me, thanks again
) so I guess I stop looking for such a hack.Might upload these screenshots somewhere though.
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