You do realize that with Fences, you can double-click the desktop and any icons on it will go away?
Yeah. That's mainly what I used it for. But now it's unnecessary. Instead of putting shortcuts and folders of stuff on the desktop and double-clicking to hide/unhide and then navigating through those folders for the stuff I need, I can just make a series of menus to those folders and interact with stuff in them without even having to actually open up the folder. Plus, I get to eliminate a background process. It's awesome.
This isn't that much of a big deal for general use, but for large project folders with a bunch of files organized in subfolders and such that you want quick access to, it's really nice.
I used to have a Dwarf Fortress folder on my desktop and when I wanted to boot up the game, I had to do a bunch of navigating into every subfolder to open up the game and whatever utilities I wanted and would typically keep a couple folders open for quick access to stuff like dfhack, screenshots/notes, etc. I could have set up a bunch of links in the start menu and task bar with explorer, but that amounts to a lot of clutter really quickly.
Now it's all in a single button. Plus, this taskbar looks so much nicer than I could ever get it to look under explorer.