Standalone Toolbar as contents of folder

Hello, I'm a longtime user of true launch bar, always amazing when I want to try something new it just always seems to already be there.

I'm having trouble though with a new idea. I'd like to have a right-side of screen, auto-hide toolbar who's contents are the files of my desktop, much like a menu folder would be, except without the button -> menu.

I've gotten that working, but the ability to have any kind of sorting/filtering doesn't seem to be possible.

If I right-click on the toolbar (not one of the files) I don't get any of the arrange, view, appearance options like you would with a menu. If I right-click on an item, I get them, but they don't have any effect on the toolbar "list of files."

Ideally it would be a vertical list of files, sorted in descending order by modified date w/ folders at the top, with some possible filters.

I've tried this sort of thing before with a tear off menu, but going that route doesn't seem to have any ability to 'dock or auto-hide, etc.'

I've even tried going mucking with the tlbdata.xml and settings.ini files without much luck (can't find any documentation on them anywhere, even google doesn't seem to know).

Any help would be greatly appreciated!