A few bugs and feature requests.

Hello, 

first off I want to say how much I love Start8 and the work you've put into it.

I'm sure if Windows 8 would have come with a startmenu like yours it would

find a much greater acceptance.

Now for a few minor... let's call them annoyances:

 

 - When moving the mouse over any of the right side menu-items the tooltip gets covered

by the pop-up to the side.

 

- Even though the mouse is hovering on the 'Recent Items' option the first item on the list

will be highlighted as if my mouse is actually on this item instead, evident by the tooltip of its

location. This is also true for every menu-item that can be displayed as a menu instead

of a link, eg: Recent Items, Control Panel, Games, Computer etc.

- I've also noticed that the recent item list catches file folders. I don't know if that is intended

but neither Vista nor 7 had this behaviour

 

- Lastly I'd like to know if it's planned to have Start8 to check for update automatically?

For a software that is so integral to make Windows 8 actually usable in day-to-day work

having to remember to check for updates every so often or regularly check the forums 

isn't the best way, in my humble opinion. There is already a Start8 service running so

would it be possible to make it check for updates every so often as well?

 

Thank you again for this great piece of software that turns Windows 8 into what it should have

been.

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Reply #1 Top

Seems like the latest beta has fixed all of the small problems I've written about and so I expect

they will be included in the next stable release as well. Thank you very much!

Still no word about an automatic update but I'm staying positive that this will happen

at some point. Thanks again.

Reply #2 Top

The automatic update stuff is something we are considering.

If you install Stardock Central it will notify you of updates.