PecoFence 0.4.0 brings more than 300 changes. The main ones: with a live wallpaper, Liquid Glass fences let the wallpaper show through again, the tray icon can be hidden, the icons and files in your fences work more like File Explorer, and a security problem is fixed.
Security fix: please update
Script fences in 0.3.0 to 0.3.3 have a security problem: when a script fence shows text that came from the network (the built-in GitHub repository activity and Weather scripts do), someone else could make one of its rows start a program on your PC when you click it. Nothing ran without a click.
This version fixes it, so please update soon. The rows of a script fence can no longer start programs by default. If a script of your own starts programs from a click, add <pecofence.allow>run</pecofence.allow> to a comment at its top.
Liquid Glass and live wallpapers
- With a live wallpaper whose picture cannot be read, such as a Wallpaper Engine scene, Liquid Glass fences are now a pane of translucent glass that the wallpaper shows through (feedback #134, #139, #149, #152, #154). They used to be one flat, solid colour.
- The first time this happens, a card says why and offers Switch to Fluent. A line under Theme style in Settings says the same.
New options
- The tray icon can be hidden (#209, feedback #145): turn off Show tray icon in Settings → General. After that, starting PecoFence once more opens the Settings window. The FAQ of the online manual covers it too.
- Icons can line up from the right (#222): Icon alignment has a new choice, Right.
- A fully transparent fence can stay transparent under the pointer (#222): turn on Stay transparent under the pointer in the fence options.
Icons and files
- Ctrl+Z undoes what you just did in a fence: a rename, a delete, a paste, files dropped into a folder.
- Icons can be dragged with the right mouse button (feedback #121). If you changed in Windows whether a plain drag copies or moves, fences now do the same (feedback #153).
- With Windows set to open items with a single click, pointing at an icon selects it, and F2 then renames it (#184).
- And 27 smaller improvements.
Folder fences
- Each folder remembers its own view and sort order (feedback #131).
- Folders with thousands of files are fast. On a test PC, a click on the tab of a folder with 8000 files took more than half a second and now takes less than 0.1 seconds.
Fences
- Switch tabs on hover is faster (asked for on linux.do): after the first tab has switched, the tabs next to it switch within 0.1 seconds.
- A fence with a locked position and size shows a lock in its title bar while the pointer is over it.
- And 20 smaller improvements.
Notes, clock and script fences
- A note is edited in place: the font, the line spacing and the colours stay as they are (feedback #153).
- To-dos no longer need a hand-typed [ ] (feedback #141): press Enter after a to-do and the next line starts with a box. To-dos can also be dragged into another order.
- And 20 smaller improvements.
Search and smart fences
- The Peek search list scrolls. Before, only the first 9 results could be seen.
- With a Chinese or Japanese input method, the word is composed right inside the search box.
- And 36 smaller improvements.
Update check
- The update check works on networks that cannot reach GitHub (feedback #127). A failed download says so and offers Open download page.
Older Windows 10
- The installer runs on Windows 10 1809, LTSC 2019 and Windows Server 2019 (#219), and five problems on 1809 are fixed. The Microsoft Store edition still needs Windows 10 2004.
Steadier
- Delete, Ctrl+C and Ctrl+X no longer load the right-click menu add-ons of other programs (#167, #178). A fault in one of them used to close PecoFence.
- When such an add-on crashes PecoFence or leaves it stuck, PecoFence starts again by itself.
- The fences keep working while a file of several GB is copied.
Other improvements
- In dark mode over a light wallpaper, the text of a Fluent fence turns dark by itself, so it can be read.
- The Settings window opens right after the click, and reopens on the page and at the place you left it.
- On 60 Hz displays, scrolling and animations move in even steps again.
- PecoFence now sends usage statistics, which show the features people use, to help improve it. File names and anything you type are never sent. You can switch it off in Settings → About.
- And 140 smaller improvements, mostly to animations, colours, the Settings pages and keyboard use.
Fixes
- Shortcuts no longer show as blank icons when a cloud drive such as OneDrive manages the Desktop folder (feedback #132, #133).
- After Win+D, a window that opens next no longer stays under the fences, so the screen no longer looks like a black wallpaper (#187).
- Delete on a rolled-up fence no longer deletes a file you cannot see.
Downloads
pecofence-v0.4.0-x64-setup.exe: installer, no administrator rights needed.pecofence-v0.4.0-x64-portable.zip: portable; extract and runpecofence.exe.
Installed copies tell you by themselves when a new version is out.
Full changelog: v0.3.3...v0.4.0