Bigger Menu perhaps ?

muswell, enough.
Although scaling the menu might seem simple, I assure you it does have complications.
Should the items on the menu be scaled too? Or should they be left at normal size? If the items are scaled, should their text & icons be scaled too? How will the text & icons be scaled without distorting them? If the items aren't scaled, how should they be positioned so that they'll still look good?

And keep in mind, these are easy questions for a human to answer; computers don't have anything remotely approaching human intelligence. John would essentially need to build AI into the menu, which is not nearly as easy as it sounds. (And yes, I know this from personal experience; one of my own, unpublished, apps supports theming but still doesn't have scaling support that plays nicely with themes)

You asked a question and got your answer: it's not going to happen anytime soon, use the R34 Mod. If you're not happy with that, I would suggest you write your own app. We're all ready & willing to learn from better apps (heck, our launchers are pretty much all copy/pasted from other launchers), and I can't imagine anyone would turn down the chance to implement scaling and theming in their own app.
(Also, we'd be delighted to see someone else helping out instead of just asking for new stuff)

And just because you're an end user, doesn't mean you can't help develop... Patrick Patience, one of the best-known and most-respected users on here (also a mod), recently left PA.c. In his farewell message, he talked about, when he first joined PA.c, being a newbie and asking newbie questions that had already been asked. Because he was willing to learn & willing to help, he quickly became one of PA.c's star developers. The rest of us developers all started as end-users too. And, like you, we decided something didn't do quite what we wanted/needed, and wrote our own apps to do it in a better way. You're welcome to join us anytime you like. (Although I would recommend dropping the 'tude; it's not going to be appreciated)

Finally, commercial apps are frequently used to produce OSS. John uses Delphi, a ridiculously expensive development environment; I use REALbasic, another ridiculously priced development environment. OSS doesn't mean the development environment is free, it just means the source code is free. That's perhaps the biggest paradox surrounding OSS. (It also means OSS developers frequently lose money, since they're shelling out for the development environment but not receiving any cash in exchange; instead of complaining, maybe donate a few bucks so John will have more time to put into the menu. Keep in mind, John's got a real life - the hours he's putting in are all volunteer hours)

IMHO, this discussion has gone on long enough... let's drop it before it gets any more heated.

Cheers!

OliverKlets just tell him about PAM MOD R34 and the fact that different themes can be sized differently so he can leave.

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, pets of all shapes and sizes, it's me, it's me, it's P.T.C. or PortableApps Theme Central.

Well, not really. I don't have anything to do with them besides using their R34 menu at home, just because I need the categories there. You (muswell, not OliverK) need resizing. R34 does that too. It will install right over 1.5.2. (If you have 2.0 beta 3, you'll have to install 1.5.2 first.)

muswellAll I am asking for is for the ability to alter the size of the menu via a footplate.

What could be more simpler?

Categories, since allowing resizing means redoing the entire theme system, which is not impossible, but requires, possibly, more work than you think. When netbooks got popular, a feature was rushed in to make the menu smaller on those little screens, but to make the menu look better on bigger screens isn't a priority, I don't think. Categories remains the most-requested feature and it's not even a priority. I'm not a mind reader and John doesn't have a timeline, but I knew Format 1.0 and Installer 1.0 were a huge priority, but now they're out. Categories are still expected, just maybe a little closer than Duke Nukem Forever. (Kidding, guys.) The updater seems to be the big deal now. That, eXpresso, and portable fonts.

muswellThinks like CAFE and so on should be a part of the menu, not a separate download even though it needs testing.

I believe that's coming soon. John won't release anything if he's not confident it's well tested.

muswellI'm just the end user, I shouldn't be expected to take on developmental responsibilities.

Certainly not, of course, but end users of Internet Explorer made Firefox because they were tired of it. (Maybe they had other reasons, but isn't it a sweet analogy?) There are two kinds of programmers out there. There are those who have an original idea and there are those who believe something could be better, so they learn how to do it and they attempt to actually do it. (Oh, and there are the ones who work for Activision, and churn out mediocre Guitar Hero title after the other with no regard for quality, but they're beside the point.) Also all programmers are also end users. Even Linus Torvalds (he made and maintains the Linux kernel) uses software made by others. So does Bill Gates and whoever all's in charge up in Redmond. So does Steve Jobs. And they're the big dogs.