Cocoa backend still requires X11 for settings dialog?

[barracuda156]

@arakiken I have built mlterm with Cocoa backend now, and apparently it still needs X11 to open settings window. Is this intended?
I would be nice to have native settings (though if it can only be done with fancy modern ObjC with clangisms, then X11 options should rather be retained, to avoid breaking the app on older macOS versions).

This is how it looks (image added for testing libsixel support):

Also, pretty much all expected macOS menus are absent. There is only one menu, mlterm, with two items in it (Config and Paste).
I have checked the build on Catalina (without my patches to fix build for 10.6), and it looks the same.

[barracuda156]

@arakiken Or basically I can build without GTK and just edit settings manually via config files? I like this terminal, perhaps it is the best we currently have on older macOS, but I really want to minimize dependencies, so that I do not have to activate half of MacPorts to make it work LOL

[arakiken]

Thanks you for using mlterm with cocoa backend.
Mlterm doesn't provide GUI configurator or menu except mlconfig (you show above) and mlterm-menu which depend on gtk.
So, please use gtk with cairo backend to avoid dependency on X11,
You can use mlcc or w3mmlconfig (tool/w3mmlconfig in mlterm source tree) to configure mlterm, but they are console applications working on mlterm.
I'm sorry but I think that very few users use mlterm on macos/cocoa, so creating a suitable setting screen for cocoa is not a high priority for now.

[barracuda156]

@arakiken Thank you for responding. I found out that we can just create plain text config files either directly or once via GUI, so the issue with a number of dependencies is effectively resolved (I made a separate “minimal” port that can be installed without pulling in GTK and friends.)
It’s probably not worth to spend effort to create the whole replacement for settings GUI in Cocoa.
It will be really nice to have Quit and Copy menus though, if that is not too problematic.