Fading Icons Feature Request

[Doomed Dust]

I enjoy the ability to fade icons on my displays. I currently have them set to 66% opacity so I can see them well enough and show much of the wallpaper at the same time (I have many icons). I would like to request a feature that would apply on a per-display basis. And you have my "Thanks" in advance, in case this becomes available in the future.

I would like the ability to set a low fade amount and a high fade amount based on mouse movement on that particular display. For example, I would like to set my icons' fade to 0% opacity after no movement for ## (configurable) amount of time (perhaps 15 seconds in my case) and fade to 100% when mouse movement is detected on that display (useful for multi-monitor setups).

Additionally, perhaps a hotkey could display all icons at 100% opacity (or configurable amount) across all displays for ## amount of time.

[Tim]

Unfortunately it's not possible to change the icon opacity on a per-display basis. Wallpaper Engine uses a Windows functionality to lower the opacity of icons and this functionality only supports lowering the opacity across all screens at the same time. Hacking something together that would work across multiple screens isn't really realistic (knowing how the Windows Explorer kind of works), so that will not happen.

You can actually set a hotkey to toggle your desktop icons on an off, see the "General" tab of the Wallpaper Engine settings. It's not exactly what you are asking for, but essentially you could just hide your icons when you do not actively need them.

[Sravdar]

Originally posted by Tim:

Unfortunately it's not possible to change the icon opacity on a per-display basis. Wallpaper Engine uses a Windows functionality to lower the opacity of icons and this functionality only supports lowering the opacity across all screens at the same time. Hacking something together that would work across multiple screens isn't really realistic (knowing how the Windows Explorer kind of works), so that will not happen.

You can actually set a hotkey to toggle your desktop icons on an off, see the "General" tab of the Wallpaper Engine settings. It's not exactly what you are asking for, but essentially you could just hide your icons when you do not actively need them.

Then can we just get feature where icons fade automatically if mouse goes iddle? This would be pretty core reason to use wallpaper engine even without animated wallpapers.