README

qTwitter is a simple application interacting with twitter.com social network. It was originally inspired by Twitterrific, known very well to Mac OS X users. It's being developed in Qt framework for C++.

Features' summary as for v0.6.0:
  - posting updates to Twitter and downloading friends or public timeline,
  - support for multiple accounts,
  - support for deleting messages, replying, retweeting and copying Tweets' permalinks to clipboard,
  - support for downloading direct messages,
  - integrated support for shortening URLs,
  - full interaction with TwitPic API, allowing for easy one-click image uploading and posting updates,
  - system tray notifications (via knotify and Growl),
  - customizable Tweet list length and look (via the use of themes),
  - in-session password storing,
  - HTTP proxy support,
  - being recognized as a source of updates,
  - translation to 7 languages in the run-time (sorry for my poor Catalan/Spanish, I appreciate any help here :) ).

See CHANGELOG for details.

If you wish to report an issue, request a feature or just give any kind of feedback concerning qTwitter, don't hesitate to contact me either via e-mail (d AT ayoy DOT net) or at Twitter (http://twitter.com/ayoy).

Thanks for your time reading this and trying qTwitter!

ayoy





HOW TO INSTALL:

To compile qTwitter you'll need Qt libraries version 4.5.0 or newer. Follow the steps:

1. Get the qTwitter source code from qt-apps.org or GitHub (http://github.com/ayoy/qtwitter).
2. Enter the source code main directory.
3. Type:

  # qmake
  # make (or make release, depending on your Qt configuration)

4. It's done! Open qTwitter via "qtwitter" (UNIX), "qtwitter.app" (MacOS X) or "release\qtwitter.exe" (Windows). On UNIX-like machines you can also:
  # make install
  
  to have the app added to /usr/bin. If you want to install application in other dir, use PREFIX parameter with qmake:

  # qmake PREFIX="my/preferred/dir"
  # make
  # make install

5. Have fun :-)