[_Microft]

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?

[sagacity]

Sure, but do you diagnose cables so often that you need a permanent icon in the menu bar?

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.