I collect and grade lab reports electronically, and both classes I’m teaching this term had labs due yesterday. I’ve also agreed to be on a faculty committee to evaluate proposals for a fellowship program, and they had a preliminary application deadline yesterday or today. As a result, I’m spending a lot of time downloading Word files from GMail.<\/p>\n
Every time I click on the download link, Firefox pops up a little dialogue box asking me if I’d like to open the file with Word, or Save it to disk. It also includes a helpful little checkbox saying “Do this automatically for files like this from now on.” Like an idiot, I check it off before I hit “Save.”<\/p>\n
Every. Goddamn. Time.<\/strong> Despite the fact that it manifestly does nothing, I check it off, in the hopes that this<\/strong> time it’ll take. On one of the computers I use regularly, it’s started to pop up already checked, which at least saves me that half-second of futility. It still doesn’t do<\/strong> anything, mind, but at least I don’t need to actively click something for it to ignore.<\/p>\n This is only the most immediately annoying of the “Door Close” dialog boxes that pop up (the name comes from Kate’s observation that they’re like the “Door Close” buttons in elevators, that don’t actually do anything when you press them). I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve tried to set the AutoPlay settings on my various computers, to no avail. I always get asked what action I would like the system to perform, despite the fact that every possible combination of file types is already set to “Open Folder to View Files.” And after my recent complaint about my tablet failing to “Sleep” properly when plugged into the power brick, I double-checked the settings, and confirmed that in every place I could find an option for “Hibernate,” it was set to “Never.” Did it make any difference?<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I collect and grade lab reports electronically, and both classes I’m teaching this term had labs due yesterday. I’ve also agreed to be on a faculty committee to evaluate proposals for a fellowship program, and they had a preliminary application deadline yesterday or today. As a result, I’m spending a lot of time downloading Word… Continue reading “Door Close” Dialogue Boxes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}