fences for ubuntu ?

[xieu90]

hi everyone,
first take a look here
http://www.stardock.com/products/fences/index.asp

second, are there any program like that for ubuntu ?
if yes, then can you please give me the name of it ?

[gettinoriginal]

Cairo Dock or Avant Window Navigator (AWN) seem to have some of what you are looking for. :P

[mcduck]

hi everyone,
first take a look here
http://www.stardock.com/products/fences/index.asp

second, are there any program like that for ubuntu ?
if yes, then can you please give me the name of it ?

KDE4 has that. Actually I'm quite sure that would be where the Stardock/Fences-people copied the idea in the first place.. ;)

Probably some Screenlet could allow doing the same stuff as well, but you'll have to check that out yourself or ask somebody who uses Screenlets.

(and no, unlike what the previous poster suggested, neither AWN or Cairo-Dock does that. They are docks.)

[xieu90]

I see
so i might try to use screenlet.
i use awn before it is the copied idea from mac. but that is not what i need now. cairo dock, i have no idea havent used it yet. so now i will give screenlet a try ^^
thank you everyone.
but i might still back

[victorbrca]

I also would really like to find something that does the same on Gnome!!!

[lykwydchykyn]

Heha that is exactly what a folder view on KDE 4 does. If you want to have that but not install all of KDE, you can try just installing plasma and running it on startup.

[Giant Speck]

KDE4 has that. Actually I'm quite sure that would be where the Stardock/Fences-people copied the idea in the first place.. ;)

Stardock has already addressed this claim:


The first prototype of "Desktop Icon Organizer" was written for Windows 98 in early 1999, when the author was just 14. Conceptualized long before KDE 4.1's keen 'FolderView' gadget and created with different goals in mind, original prototypes are available from as far back as 2003 (screenshot), with excitement for a public product building in 2007. After many years, rewrites and rounds of prototypes, this once side-project of the author's has been finished and polished - now proudly, "Stardock Fences".

http://www.stardock.com/products/fences/about.asp

[victorbrca]

Found a screenlet on Gnome-look.org. I'll try it tonight.

http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Folderview+Screenlet?content=102890

[victorbrca]

It looks ok. There's no scrolling, can't drop folders and transparency doesn't work without composite.

Other than that it's ok.

Screenshot (http://wazem.dyndns.org/temp/forums/ubuntu/folderview.png)



Vic.

[smapdi636]

I'm also using this screenlet. Unfortunately it's no replacement for Fences. :(

I'd pay for this on Ubuntu under Gnome.

[TimMcRae]

i just used this and now all files on my desktop are gone. whut?

[drewsus]

I wonder how something like Fences would work with WINE?
Probably horribly haha.