Lou Plummer mentioned this tool on Amerpie today:
Did anyone try it? Impressions?
Plummer’s note:
The developer’s true identity is unknown; “ggbond268” is a pseudonym, and the project came out of the Chinese Mac community. The README is in Chinese, though the app itself is localized into English and ten other languages. That’s not disqualifying on its own – I run Chinese-built apps like Qspace regularly – but it’s the kind of context you want before you grant an app broad system access, not after.
I know, Chinese is not necessarily China, but unknown enough for me to think, “cool but not cool enough for school”.
Katie
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Tried it, realized that all it did for me was add one more icon to my Menu Bar but replaced none of them. Uninstalled.
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@KVZ Source of this text?
Here is the GitHub link: GitHub - ggbond268/MacTools: A free and open-source collection of native macOS menu bar tools. · GitHub
The readme file is in simplified Chinese, not traditional Chinese so it’s not from Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Although it can also be Singapore or Malaysia, it’s less likely in terms of wordings in terms of the document. In addition, the file name contains zh-CN, which is the locale code of China.
Maybe the existence of Chinese language is not bad as there are so many apps and devices which attempts to hide so many China’s background and tends to look like a kind of Western brand. Nothing which is registered in London is an example.
I’ve been finding Claude + hammerspoon pretty useful for this recently. I’ve created a menu bar item for sound devices and for octoprint.