Bug #49415 No "Cancel" button in Create a new server instance
Submitted: 3 Dec 2009 19:36 Modified: 25 Jan 2010 21:39
Reporter: Kolbe Kegel Email Updates:
Status: Not a Bug Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Workbench Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:5.2.10 4686 OS:MacOS
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any

[3 Dec 2009 19:36] Kolbe Kegel 
Description:
There is no "Cancel" button in the "Create a new server instance" dialog.

How to repeat:
1) New Server Instance
2) Observe.

Suggested fix:
There should be a "Cancel" button in wizards that the user may want to abort.
[25 Jan 2010 21:39] Alfredo Kojima 
Mac wizards have no Cancel button, that action can be accomplished by clicking the window close button, as is standard in that platform.
[25 Jan 2010 22:25] Kolbe Kegel 
Interesting... I was able to quickly find dozens of dialog boxes and wizards in in both Apple-produced and third-party OS X applications that include a "Cancel" button. Additionally, the Apple Human Interface Guidelines seem to endorse the use of Cancel buttons in dialog boxes on this platform.

In fact, it appears that the "Create a new server instance" is an "Application modal" dialog box, which the guidelines indicate "do not have the standard title bar controls (close, minimize, zoom); the user dismisses these dialogs by clicking a push button, such as OK or Cancel", so it seems as though the suggestion to use the window close button instead of a Cancel button goes against interface guidelines for the platform.