As I remember it - you'd put your icons about where you wanted them, but they wouldn't be aligned pixel perfect. So you'd right click and see "arrange desktop i

As I remember it - you'd put your icons about where you wanted them, but they wouldn't be aligned pixel perfect. So you'd right click and see "arrange desktop icons on the grid" and think that must be it. But that would rearrange everything starting at the top left, like modern Windows does. i.e. Rather than doing what you needed, it would destroy ten minutes of painstaking layout. There was no way to do the assisted alignment you actually wanted. They'd pitched a fabulous, malleable, document-centric desktop. Technically it was all there. They didn't quite get it to the user. People who were fluent in C could probably have done some quick fixes and made it hum. I think this was in version 2.0, and I watched it go unfixed in 2.1, warp. Can't remember if it was broken in 4, think so. Good example of the way OS/2 dev focused on ticking feature checkboxes (3d icons! a different dock! obscure mainframe compatibility features that mainstream users will never care about!) not users.