Classic Shell: Forum

Edit: Moved thread to: http://classicshell.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=5277

Hello, I have an idea for the classic shell start menu. This would be to place any image you'd like on the start menu, and have it link to any program or file . For example a picture of a meadow, and have it link to your photos with a caption on it that says "photos". You could place these images anywhere on the start menu, and as far away from each other as you'd like. This would be like the windows 10 live tiles feature except without using the live tiles api.

Here's a picture:

I found a quote on the classic shell forums: "Showing live tiles is currently not possible, as windows 8/8.1 does not provide an api for 3rd parties to use them. It may be possible in windows 10, but that remains to be seen."

But with this idea, it'd be possible to have tiles, just not tiles that update every so often like the real windows 10 tiles.

Perhaps an image that updates could be possible with a custom news and weather program for windows that points to where it would recieve news stories captions & their pictures or a live url where the picture changes. But I'm not sure on that.

This would need two features to be implemented into classic shell:
1) The ability to add images to the start menu as objects, and to have the same ( or similar ) settings as an item such as 'programs' would have under 'edit item' in the customize start menu section.
2) Multiple columns to support the added images. Multiple columns would be useful for adding things other than images as well.

Any thoughts?

Thanks for reading =)

Agreed. i want this