This was not allowed before. Until just recently, the technology didn't exist to place icons anywhere in the grid. They would automatically smoosh up into orderly rows starting at the top-left with no gaps between icons. Apple is continuing to develop cutting edge innovation, though, and now you will be able to leave entire rows and columns empty, or any specific icon space you choose!

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (11 children)

Seems like a trivial programming task even my junior noob ass can handle.

[–] casmael@lemm.ee 33 points 7 months ago (10 children)

Actually it’s because apps aren’t neutrally buoyant in the OS, they naturally float to the top

[–] Starayo@lemm.ee 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No wonder it took so long, must've been a nightmare to get every different app neutral, what with their differing weights.

[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 8 points 7 months ago

They had to invent whole new algorithms to he able to give the binaries of all apps the exact same Hamming weight

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