Qelly

Nally, every platform, every machine.

Introduction

Qelly (pronounced as the English name "Kelly") is a Qt port of Nally, the open-source Telnet/SSH client for Mac OS X. Qt is chosen to be the underlying framework of this application bacause it enables us to build a GUI-based application with a native-looking interface for every operating system with minimal effort. The project is currently only a Qt version of Nally (hence the name), but more features from other Telnet/SSH clients are also planned.

Licensing

Qelly is published under the terms of GNU Public License version 3 (GPL v3) as defined by the Free Software Foundation (FSF). A copy of the license should have been included with this file. You may also find the details of GPL v3 at: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt

If you have any questions regarding the use of the content of the project, feel free to contact the author(s) of the project. See AUTHORS for more contact information.

Special Notices on SSH Feature

The SSH connection is driven by external executables. In Unix-like systems, the OpenSSH client, which is built-in in most cases, is used. Under Windows, Plink (PuTTY Link command-line interface) is used.

You can get Plink at the PuTTY project download page: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

Or, if you don't know which one to download, you can use this direct link: http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/plink.exe

The SSH client path can be put anywhere you wish to, as long as you specify its location correctly in Qelly's Preferences.

Building

Qelly depends on Qt, LibQxt, and optionally QJson. Currently both Qt 4.8 and 5+ are supported. You can find more information regarding installation on Qt, libqxt and QJson's respective project pages:

• Qt 4.8: http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/installation.html
• Qt 5.1: http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.1/qtdoc/qtinstaller.html
• LibQxt: http://dev.libqxt.org/libqxt/wiki/user_guide
• QJson: http://qjson.sourceforge.net/

JSON Backends

LibQxt's JSON processor, QxtJSON, has a serious bug in 0.6.1, which is subsequently fixed. APT, unfortunately, only has the old, buggy version to this date. The alternative implementation based on QJson is provided to address this specific problem.

If you intend to build Qelly using the QJson-based implementation, run qmake with an additional argument DEFINE+=QJSON, i.e.:

qmake DEFINE+=QJSON Qelly.pro

For those using newer versions of LibQxt and doesn't need QJson, simply run qmake without the DEFINE+=QJSON argument.

APT-based Installation

If you use an APT-based package manager, the content of .travis.yml provides a minimalistic build environment setup. It is currently based on Qt 4.8.1, LibQxt 0.6.1, and (optionally) QJson 0.7.1.

Other Package Managers

Alternatively, if your package manager of choice (such as YUM, Homebrew, etc.) provides Qt, LibQxt and (optionally) QJson, you can install both them manually.

LibQxt Setup Without Package Managers

If you wish to build LibQxt manually, you will need to choose an appropriate version based on the version of Qt tha you use. At the time of writing (2013-09-25), the latest stable LibQxt release (0.6.2) supports only Qt 4. Therefore, if you wish to build Qelly against Qt 5, you will need to use Git or Mercurial to clone the tip version, and build LibQxt from that.

Thrid Party Components

Qelly uses Qt under the terms of GPL v3. The Qt GUI Toolkit (Qt) is a product of Digia Plc and/or its subsidiary(-ies). Digia Plc, Qt, and their respective logos are trademarks of Digia Plc. Visit Qt's project website for more information: http://qt-project.org/

LibQxt is used under the terms of LGPL v2.1. LibQxt is owned by the Qxt Foundation. http://libqxt.org/

QJson is used under the terms of LGPL v2.1. QJson is authored by Flavio Castelli. http://qjson.sourceforge.net/

Plink (PuTTY Link) is distributed under the MIT license. For more, see: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/licence.html

The following Oxygen Icons are used in PNG format in Qelly, under the terms of LGPL v3:

• bookmarks-organize
• face-wink
• list-add
• player-time
• preferences-desktop-color
• preferences-desktop-font
• preferences-system
• strigi
• view-refresh

You may obtain the SVG and PNG version of all of the above images, among others, at Oxygen Icons's website: http://www.oxygen-icons.org/