More than 12 shortcuts

[Mathematician]

TL;DR

Allow for more than 12 shortcuts to be showed in the shortcut bar at a time.

What?

Currently there is hardcoded limit to how many shortcuts can appear in the shortcut bar.
I propose to either reveal that value (for modders to change) or raise the limit (to, say: 24, or dependent on screen width).

Why?

With some mods installed (i.e. but not limited to https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Shortcuts) there are many more shortcuts avaliable than it is possible to have in a shortcut bar at a time. It would be convenient to be able to show more, especially since there is space avaliable for at least twice as much.

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[ssilk]

Correction: twice as much on your monitor.

[slippycheeze]

I had been thinking about posting the same thing. Like the OP I have enough horizontal space for more shortcuts, and especially with the empty pair at the right shown when I open the "..." menu, feels arbitrary not to have them.

To my mind the "obvious" limit is "as many as fit between quickbars and the armor/weapon panel". When the screen size changes, move them to (the bottom of) that "..." menu, and they have a fairly natural overflow - and a simple UI rule for players to learn, which is "least important to the right, use the menu for them, and they are always at the bottom of it"

[Darinth]

The current limit does feel a little arbitrarily small...

[gGeorg]

Add settings to GUI setting

show "x" rows of shortcut bar (<<< already there)
show "x" icons per row (<<< new one)

Make these two setting for Invetory shortuct AND for the side shortcut panel. Independent. Variety of monitors and mods is real.

[TheBloke]

Yes please, I would definitely like this. 12 now feels awfully small, given we have mods like Shortcuts which, very usefully, allow all mod-added tools to be available via shortcut bar icons.

[tommygunner70]

Yes please, I would definitely like this. 12 now feels awfully small, given we have mods like Shortcuts which, very usefully, allow all mod-added tools to be available via shortcut bar icons.

I totally agree with TheBloke, we are given the ability to expand the hot bar past 2 lines, why not allow the same for the shortcut part of it?
Due to mods making use of it too, I myself have like 33 options for the shortcut bar but can only display 12 of them and constantly having to switch them out is starting to get annoying, so I just removed all the short cuts and started using it more like a pop up.

[eradicator]

+1, make it moddable so people can decide for themselfs how many rows/colums they want.

[Bilka]

In the next version:

[TheBloke]

That's really awesome, thanks for the implementation, and for letting us know.