How not to mix icon arrangement and sorting functionality by Apple
So, here I am with some icons on my desktop and I want to align them nicely, as any tidy person would. So I go looking for an 'Align Icons' option on the desktop context menu.
I find something called 'Clean Up', as below.
Not being sure if this will send my selected icons to the trash or what I decide to click it anyway. Oh nice, all my icons got aligned to a grid. Perfect. Now if only there was a way to always align them to a grid. So I go looking for a 'Snap to grid' option.
Hmm, not on the context menu (above), let's have a look in 'View options'.
Hmm, not there either.
I know, since this is an Apple and you have to 'Think differently'* I'll go look for it in places I'd never expect to find it in a sane world.
Oh look, here it is:
'Arrange by name', 'Arrange by size', etc. They all make sense but 'Arrange by Snap to grid' what kind of arragement is that?
Wait a second though, let's take a look at the context menu again:
So why isn't it on the desktop context menu in the same place?
The solution, Apple, and anyone else who was wondering. Is to create a checkbox which says 'Snap to grid' and only then enable the drop-down menu for sorting because you can't rearrange icons, which you have to if you sort them, unless you want icon alignment to occur. Next the 'None' and the dividers in the 'View options menu could also be removed, which would simplify the UI and the user experience. Not to mention it would all make sense in plain English too. Also, the desktop context menu should have a checkable item for 'Snap to grid' next to 'Clean up'.
Apple, you can't code for shit...
* Steve Job's marketing teams's term for "It's shit and wrong and we won't change it as we'll appear as being wrong to much and we're Apple and we're never wrong"