Launchpad in Widescreen

I am wondering has anyone been able to make the app icon grid in the OS X Launchpad fill the entire "wide" screen of a widescreen (16x9) monitor?
I have a 16x9 screen attached to my Mac Mini, I am only seeing a 5x7 grid (5 rows, 7 columns), which I think would be appropriate for a standard 16x10 or 4x3 monitor. I see that in the widescreen Macbook Pro's, the Launchpad icon grid spans the entire wide screen (more than 7 columns) however just not on the Mac Mini? Is there something that I need to do to tell OS X that I have a wide screen aspect ratio so it can re-do the layout?
Thanks in advance.

I assume this is because you have pages and pages of individual apps, and it takes forever to scroll through them all to find what you're looking for.
I got totally annoyed doing that, so I condensed everything into just enough containers to fill one page. It's much easier now to just click the container I want and open the app.
I'm unaware of any way to increase the rows or columns. It'd be nice if Launchpad could be opened across both of my dispays too, instead of just the one.

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nealeh
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