[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="38" id="3912185"] The pricing was determined by the increase in number of features offered. Dev time costs. Either that's conveyed in yearly subscriptions like Adobe does it, or via lifetime licenses. You have mail. [/quote] Are you sure about that? Fences 5 is by no means new feature heavy like start 11v2 was.
[quote who="swarnold" reply="39" id="3912192"] Chameleon should have been sold as its own "Product". Bundling it and jacking up the price of Fences by justifying the new features tells us you don't understand the difference between pretty and practical. Fence users, I'm betting, are all about being practical. Folks who want a prettier desktop (colors and fading) should buy that in a separate Product, for a reasonable price. Then again, maybe your R&D figured out that nobody wanted it
[quote who="JanOscar" reply="7" id="3912182"] I don't know...Having some fun isn't useless to me... Ask this guy: [/quote] I agree that AI art is kind of cool. AI in general certainly has a place the problem is figuring out where it really fits. NVidia is also an interesting one to watch and maybe they will be the most successful company to use AI correctly for various reasons. Of course right now we are still really early on in a battle of upscale / frame generation
Microsoft is definitely moving towards AI as fast as they can right now. It will be interesting to see how much more of a focus it becomes in Windows 12. I don't think I will ever use co pilot nearly as much as the start menu. I rarely even use co pilot to be honest. Do other people like this feature?
[quote who="BradSams" reply="82" id="3912058"] But I realize that may not be as obvious today because we are in the very early stages of shipping more frequently but once we continue our cadence, those who want the latest and greatest version of Fences, we believe, will be better off paying $10 a year rather than $20 a release as they had previously done. [/quote] Sure this is fair for the customers who like subscriptions and have been asking for it. But, from the point of v
Thank you NewRaven, your comment perfectly hit the nail on the head. Stardock is very fortunate to have a fanbase that is willing to give such detailed feedback
[quote who="Aida66" reply="16" id="3911644"] - I set the transparency of the bar to 0 but the start menu remained unchanged, is it possible to make the start menu transparent too? [/quote] Yes, it is in a separate section [start menu] > [customize visual appearance] > [adjust menu transparency] [quote who="Aida66" reply="16" id="3911644"] - Is it possible to hide the start bar automatically when a program goes into full screen? I used to use the hide bar o
Does this mean that Fences 5 falls into the classic OD subscription model as well for those under the classic model? The language certainly implies it that will if so I will definitely be renewing
Hello Omnimaxus, You actually need to create those yourself for them to work On all the reg edits you see listed. You should create a new "string value" and give it the name listed which in your case is S11_PutUniversalAppsInFolderByDefault After you create it yourself you can then edit its value to 1 to turn it on or 0 to turn it off
[quote who="pelaird" reply="4" id="3911512"] Thanks to all the Stardock team for their relentless attention to the New Start11v2; making it one of the best yet! To all that celebrate Thanksgiving, I wish you a happy holiday with friends and family. To all those that don't, I wish you a great week full of joy and happiness. Thanks again to Sean, Neil, and basj for their tireless help! pelaird [/quote] I agree and truly hope that start 11 v2 is
[quote who="JanOscar" reply="62" id="3911351"] economic disaster worldwide- “So high will the bushel of wheat rise / That man will be eating his fellow man” [/quote] I do have to agree here that our economy is in the toilet. Maybe that is the hart of the problem, and if so it is actually a really big one. The cost of everything is rising too quickly. Sure we see a lot of strategies from a lot of companies to make more money. Food is costing more while shrinking i
[quote who="swarnold" reply="60" id="3911337"] Hopefully, but to paraphrase Nostradamus, "The nuances of V4 being un-fixable, the reptile of many colors will rise from the pit that is V5 and fences will..." the rest being illegible. But not to worry, he is famous for predicting good things... right? [/quote] True, we must not lose sight that Nostradamus is in fact a visionary.
[quote who="PhoenixRising1" reply="66" id="3910902"] with newly released 2.02 My icons disappear (becoming completely blank) often as I make changes to the start menu. [/quote] With 2.03 So far so good. My icons have have not turned invisible while making modifications. I will post if this changes
[quote who="swarnold" reply="57" id="3911198"] To quote from the Discord SD forum, "bdsams — Today at 6:48 PM Yes we are following the conversation, it's always more nuanced than the discussions make things out to be but we certainly hear the concerns that are being raised. " Good to know... [/quote] Hopefully that means we will have a fix here soon. I have tried my best to stay solution orientated as I would like Fences 5 to be success
[quote who="Fyew-jit-tiv" reply="47" id="3910934"] 40% for V4 License owners. If you purchased this 6-8 weeks (Stardock current is 4 weeks) before another version release you are going to feel sick about it. 40% discount here is going a long way. Plus this is nice for longtime supporters too. 25% For V3 10% for V2 & V1 [/quote] I actually like that idea. I do believe going from v4 to v5 is part of what is making it a hard purchase at 27 dollar
with newly released 2.02 My icons disappear (becoming completely blank) often as I make changes to the start menu. I am also often having to re add my custom icons that have been added in the [shortcut list] under start menu > configuration. This issue happen rarely but on occasion before 2.02
[quote who="citats" reply="44" id="3910839"] more than double the previous permanent upgrade license cost is not acceptable @ 19.99. No clue where you're coming from. Increases in costs are inevitable however such an ask is unreasonable. Counting on a black Friday deal each year is also short sighted. Increase the upgrade fee by 20 to 30% is more inline with typical software support increases. [/quote] I think at the core to my solution really comes down to stardock reversi
[quote who="BradSams" reply="41" id="3910809"] Quoting Fyew-jit-tiv, reply 36 Brad, i bear nothing personal against you as i guess your just doing your job, i (and i think i speak for a few) think you need to step forward and address this... With the f
[quote who="ljferdinand" reply="36" id="3910718"] If i owed startdock i'd fire you for this. You gave away Start11v2 which was probably your biggest update this year for an outstanding price and then you drop Fences5 which is probably the worst feature update this year for an outrageous price. If you did this the other way around (Fences for £6 & Start11v2 for £30) you may, just MAY have got away with that but this guy..... NO!... You are leaving a bad taste i
I am glad you got it working. It sure has been a long ride getting windows 11 just right. At least it has been for me. In the early days I experimented with so many different programs trying to get things like the explorer start menu and taskbar to have the right feel. I know I used explorerpatcher quite a bit early on, but there are so many other programs I wanted to try out as well just to see if I could get the OS looking and functioning well. I dont think I remember all of them. S
[quote who="Supremacy2k" reply="22" id="3910702"] Deep within my installed programs i found ExplorerPatcher. I have no memory of installing it, witch was why i said earlier, that i had no such software installed. Once ExplorerPatcher was uninstalled, Start11 worked as intended [/quote] That makes sense. Explorerpatcher breaks pretty often once Windows 11 updates, if you don't also update explorerpatcher with their fixes then it leaves programs such as start 11 inop
Welcome back Don! Your skinning design has always been one of my favorites
[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="78" id="3910535"] W11 Pro style, Face by Sed and Tanger port of LightStar's WB to Winstep by Giz: [/quote] I am glad to see start 11v2 getting some love. It is the best software stardock has released on windows 11 by far. It is also fun to see how people customize it as a lot of work c
May I suggest a reversal on this one new policy. I do believe this would make things right. "To ensure uninterrupted access to the software, users must maintain an active Stardock Subscription for that specific product. If the subscription lapses, the software will stop working until the subscription is renewed." I feel paying for updates on an ann
[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="10" id="3910464"] it'd be a good practie to save your installers... [/quote] On that part I agree. I have a stardock folder going now so it shouldnt be an issue in the future. I do have Fences 4 working now so I think I am good. However we will see if OP has his issue resolved as well.
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