Nally, every platform, every machine.
Qelly 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 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.
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.
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.
Qelly depends on Qt and LibQxt. Currently both Qt 4.8 and 5+ are supported. You can find more information regarding installation on Qt and libqxt'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
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 and
LibQxt 0.6.1.
Alternatively, if your package manager of choice (such as YUM, Homebrew, etc.) provides Qt and LibQxt, you can install both them manually.
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.
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/
Plink (PuTTY Link) is distributed under the MIT license. For more, see: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/licence.html