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Just a heads up Ice is abandoned and broken on upcoming versions of MacOS. I still need to look into an alternative
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/06/06/alternatives-bartender-...
Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables
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To save me 10 mins and $2, is this posted to GitHub somewhere?
Absolutely this is worth packaging for KDE. Although I imagine if you don't have the motivation to make it in the first place, you likely don't have the motivation to package it.
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#123I don't think I can abide running vibe-coded software, but maybe I'll make a hand-coded fork now that the SPI is exposed. (Assuming it works correctly.)
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Absolutely this is worth packaging for KDE. Although I imagine if you don't have the motivation to make it in the first place, you likely don't have the motivation to package it.
I am happy to package it and port it for Gtk/GNOME today.
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#126This is pretty nice, but why do a lot of Mac apps insist on living in the menu bar?
Making 1 click to access is faster than typing the app name in finder. Dock is usually full and used for different type of apps. Makes also constantly visible output possible with standard ui patterns.
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> It's 1st of May here Is that date significant somewhere? It was an nice sunny Friday for me.
It's May Day, which is a labour holiday everywhere except North America commemorating the Haymarket Affair when American police brutally repressed striking workers . In North America we have Labor Day in September to distance it from the historical associations with actual organizing and police brutality.
1st of may is festive day in Mexico.
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Absolutely this is worth packaging for KDE. Although I imagine if you don't have the motivation to make it in the first place, you likely don't have the motivation to package it.
I've got Opus crunching on it now, will update when I have it finished and published Edit: https://github.com/Zetaphor/whatcable-linux Running on my Fedora KDE machine right now. Also includes a CLI so you could wrap your own widget I still need to figure out publishing, doing this in between work meetings.
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#130Cool. Just want to chime in that I wanted to see how quickly GPT-5.5 can turn this into a KDE Plasma 6 Plasmoid. Took about 10 minutes and two dollars, and now I have a nice QML app showing the same information in my taskbar. Just wanted to say this because I feel it's really crazy that I can just do this today...