[BUG] Allocate room for at least XX large icons does not work as expected

There is no way to have Start8 only allocate as much room as it needs to display ALL pinned items in its menu

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I have noticed that Start8 doesn't display all my pinned to Start8 menu icons properly.

I cuurently have 21 shortcuts and if I set the Allocate for room... option to 0 then it displays only 16 of them. If I set it to 16 then it displays the exact same number of icons as 0 so presumably 16 is the default? However, if I set it to 17 or 18 then I still only see the same 16 icons despite there being 21 items in the list. The only way to refresh the list is to click on the Use large icons option to uncheck it then check it again. This will then show however many icons I have set.

Why doesn't Start8 only allocate what space it needs to display however many icons you have in the list? If I set it to 20 when I have 20 items then they will all display but if I add another than it will not show unless I increase the Allocate room... option to 21 or more (it really could do with a scroll up/down option when this happens IMO). If I set it higher than I need then I'm left with an ugly empty area that serves no purpose. If I set it too low then I lose access to some of my pinned items and I'm also left with an ugly double separator line at the bottom too, which is the end of the pinned list and the start of All Programs. As it currently is, I have to tediously increase and decrease the Allocate room... option everytime I add or remove a pinned item to the Start8 menu. Hardly user-friendly in my view.

How do I get Start8 to only allocate as much space as it needs to display however many large icons I have pinned to my Start8 menu? I'm pretty sure that was how the Windows 7 Start menu worked as I did have to keep increasing a figure in order to display all my pinned items.

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Having a similar problem.  Set to show 12 items on start menu but will only show 8.  Did you ever get a fix for this?

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

This issue definitely needs to be fixed IMO.

On Windows 7, whenever I used to pin an application to the Start menu then it would automatically adjust itself to show as many as the screen height could allow before resorting to scrolling down the ones it couldn't fit on the screen.

On the Start8 menu, I either have to set at least the number of applications I have pinned to the Start menu or else lose access to some pinned applications, say, two if it is set to show 20 items when I have 22 pinned. Start8 doesn't automatically scroll nor does it automatically adjust to show (as in the example) all 22. It's a little inflexible IMO.

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