Comment by pimeys
2 days ago
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...
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.
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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I am happy to package it and port it for Gtk/GNOME today.
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I feel like this is so lazy bothering maintainers for it is not great.
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Admiral Ackbar has entered the chat.
Making something has a well-defined end. Packaging something for distribution is an easy way to walk yourself into a long-term commitment.
It's 1st of May here, so probably not doing it today. Looking into it a bit more when I get back from the parties. but it's basically just three files: QML for the UI, some python code to parse /proc data and a metadata file.
> It's 1st of May here
Is that date significant somewhere? It was an nice sunny Friday for me.
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Did exactly this with the Sennheiser BTD-700 Bluetooth dongle. Found someone had done the work to create a little C library for controlling the dongle and with that Claude had created a nice widget for KDE to control my headphones.
Yeah it's insane how quickly the platform issue get solved by LLMs for 90% of software.
I fixed lots of old tools' issues with using older broken APIs as well this way.