This is really beginning to irk me.

Fences is not deselecting selected items on the desktop when it should resulting in (most notably) unintentional moves of icons, and even unintentional deletes.  This happens WAY more than I am comfortable with, and I'm wondering how many times I've accidentally deleted something and just never knew it.

A typical scenario might unfold something like this, and mind you this is just one of probably billions of scenarios:

I'm browsing images in a Google result.  I wish to save a couple, so I drag the first onto the desktop.  Because I have a default Fence, the image is automatically placed there.  Then I go back and drag a second image onto the desktop.  At this point, normal desktop behavior would dictate that the previous item would automatically be deselected as the new item is dropped, but it is NOT.  This leads to the potential for all kinds of bad things to happen.

When something is selected on the desktop, the ONLY way it should remain selected is if the next mouse click action uses either the CTRL or SHIFT key modifiers.  Any other mouse click MUST release all other selections and act upon only the new target.

Unfortunately, the predictability of when you are going to get bitten by this bug is not always obvious or reproducible.  That said, this is not the first post I have read about mysterious behavior on the desktop, including unintentional renaming, moving, and deleting.  I have experienced all three of these.

I am using Fences Version 2.13.  As far as I can tell, the last update to this program occurred in 2013. 

Is this program under active development, troubleshooting, and support by Stardock, or are we looking at a dead application here?

Fences is an outstanding program for extending the usability and utility of the desktop.  But it is also dangerous and unpredictable. 

How about some support and a fix?