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 feel like this is so lazy bothering maintainers for it is not great.
No need to bother maintainers, just package it up and upload it to the KDE store as a Plasma extension. Then it can appear for download in "Get New Widgets" in Plasma edit mode. Plenty of "lazy" widgets in there.
I am happy to package it and port it for Gtk/GNOME today.
If you end up doing that, please post it here. I'd be a very happy user of that extension
Also happy to test it out on Gnome
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.
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.
I have Claude working on a port to Intercal. Says it may take awhile, I'll post updates when they're available.
> Swift --(claude)--> Plasmoid --(claude)--> CLI --(claude)--> Rust-Port --(claude)--> Intercal
Is this the human centipede of programming?
Yes, as long as there are humans reviewing and quality-gating the outputs at every stage.
Otherwise, it's just a very long exoprosthetic digestive tract.
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.
May Day - like labour day in Canada/USA... but on the first of May
I would argue nothing about American Labor Day has anything to do with labor at all. Honestly we should just rename it “Summer’s End” because there is literally no theme. The ad flyers for the sales on that weekend have, if any perceivable theme at all, red, white and blue / Stars and Stripes for some reason. It’s traditional that school starts the day after it, but in many places that’s been dragged several weeks sooner into August for some sick reason.
We just don’t even have any holiday that honors labor, laborers, or labor unions.
> I would argue nothing about American Labor Day has anything to do with labor at all. Honestly we should just rename it “Summer’s End” because there is literally no theme.
Isn't that true of most holidays pretty much anywhere in the West these days? Sure, there's Christmas and Halloween and Easter that have specific themes, but excepting deeply-religious communities who practice associated traditions, they're as meaningful as cosmetic items in free-to-play games. But every country has a bunch of other holidays that most people don't know or care about much beyond knowing it's a day off.
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.
Still widely noted in Chicago, where the Haymarket riot took place. There's even a very well-attended reenactment every year.
North America is a big place. Generalizations always fail.
You do know that no sea/ocean has split the continent and that Mexico is still in North America right?
1st of may is festive day in Mexico.
May Day has been around significantly longer than the Haymarket Affair.. a couple thousands years at least.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Day
International Workers Day:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Workers%27_Day
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.