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Cool. 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...
I fixed lots of old tools' issues with using older broken APIs as well this way.
Good stuff, but it's telling me that my USB-C Thunderbolt cable has been plugged in upside down but the connector handled this. I was not aware that you can plug in something into USB-C upside down!
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I do not use KDE and wanted just command-line version of it without any Qt dependencies, so I've burned some tokens and produced just that: https://github.com/vzaliva/whatcable-linux-cli
Sorry, I'm late to the party but there's no rust port yet, so .. https://crates.io/crates/whatcable Thanks to the previous implementers/clauders.. I don't take any credits.
This is pretty nice, but why do a lot of Mac apps insist on living in the menu bar?
This is pretty nice, but why do a lot of Mac apps insist on living in the menu bar?
Is it not rather useful in this particular case? You will see the reported capabilities whenever you plug in a cable. Or do people rather want to diagnose and label their cables just once?
Following that logic, every application you use more than a handful of times should live there.
Anyway. I'm not trying to argue, I think this is a neat tool, but when the Windows tray got bloated with icons people used to complain about it.
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Sorry, I'm late to the party but there's no rust port yet, so .. https://crates.io/crates/whatcable Thanks to the previous implementers/clauders.. I don't take any credits.
I have Claude working on a port to Intercal. Says it may take awhile, I'll post updates when they're available.
Is this the human centipede of programming?
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You can put it in a secondary onclick taskbar with Ice (similarly to Windows)
There's also Bartender, Hidden Bar etc., but they all come with some downsides. I just don't get why Apple doesn't recognize this as a problem. Do the engineers working on macOS all have two of these 5:1 aspect ratio ultra wide monitors!?
But Microsoft managed to deal with that issue - years ago. With XP they introduced collapsible tray area and later, it also become possible to rearrange icons.
Somehow for Apple the problem doesn't exist or they assume that their users will choose a 3rd party solution. Frankly, it's them who should provide the solution straight within the operating system. Especially when Apple computers revolve nowadays more around laptops which by definition have smaller display area.
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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.
Making something has a well-defined end. Packaging something for distribution is an easy way to walk yourself into a long-term commitment.