{"id":1601,"date":"2010-06-01T17:27:55","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T17:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1601"},"modified":"2010-06-01T17:27:55","modified_gmt":"2010-06-01T17:27:55","slug":"from-the-department-of-pointless-ui-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1601","title":{"rendered":"From the department of pointless UI options"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, I updated the Java VM on this machine, and as part of the process, I uninstalled the previous version. During the uninstallation process, I was presented with the following dialog:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/uninstall.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1602\" title=\"uninstall\" src=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/uninstall.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"466\" height=\"131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/uninstall.png 466w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/uninstall-300x84.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure what purpose the checkbox in this dialog serves. By checking it, do I suppress the confirmation dialog for all future uninstallations? That doesn&#8217;t sound smart. But what is the alternative? A checkbox that serves no purpose other than helping me avoid having to click the mouse one extra time just in case I happen to reinstall, and then uninstall, the 6.19 version of the Java VM?<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1601' send='false' layout='button_count' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, I updated the Java VM on this machine, and as part of the process, I uninstalled the previous version. During the uninstallation process, I was presented with the following dialog: I&#8217;m not sure what purpose the checkbox in this dialog serves. By checking it, do I suppress the confirmation dialog for all <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1601' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-11-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1603,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions\/1603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}