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07

Synapse: Aspartate

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This time on my new blog, I’ve the honor to present:
Synapse 0.2.6 – Codename: Aspartate

Synapse 0.2.6 - Codename Aspartate

Synapse 0.2.6 - Codename Aspartate - Doish Theme

Forgot what Synapse is?
Synapse is a semantic launcher written in Vala that you can use to start applications as well as find and access relevant documents and files by making use of the Zeitgeist engine.
Just press <Ctrl+Space> on your keyboard, and Synapse will show up; then you can type to search things: applications, documents, web pages you visited, and more and more stuff :)
The goal of this application is to “find  what you do”, for example, you can simply press the down arrow (after summoning the application) to see recent activities!

What you see in the screenshot is a new theme: Do-ish (yes yes, it’s like Gnome Do)!
Let’s talk about the changelog:

  • New SSH plugin: fast connect to your preferite hosts! Thank you ~antono!
  • Bumped Vala version requirement to >= 0.12
  • Click, Click, and also Scroll! (for mouse-lovers)
    - now you can click an item in the list to select it, or double-click to execute
    - you can also click on categories
    - and if you love the mouse wheel, just try to scroll on the list
  • Drag&Drop: from now on you can Drag&Drop your files from Synapse window to any other window
  • Focus behavior changed: now Synapse will stay on top
    So if you launch a slow program and in the meantime reopen Synapse, the program will not steal the foucs!
    This way you can enjoy “Shift+Enter” to execute an item while keeping Synapse open.
  • User interface speedups
  • Talking about keyboard shortcut, you can now customize all key bindings from the Settings window
  • KDE (Kwin) compatibility
  • Minor tweaks of the relevancy computation
  • A good number of bug fixes

Like ~mhr3 said:

If you like Synapse, you can help out by writing plugin descriptions on our wiki, just click the help button in Synapse’s preferences window (in the plugin tab) and you’ll be taken to a wiki page (most likely empty right now) where all other users will then be able to read this.

You can find the tarball here.
Ubuntu users can install Synapse from our stable PPA (ppa:synapse-core/ppa)!
On Natty you’ll find only Synapse 0.2.4.2 so you should really add this PPA :-)

Our Bleeding Edge PPA users will find this release of Synapse tomorrow (no need to add the stable ppa)!

So, do you like these new features?
Subscribe to the RSS feed to keep up with Synapse!
Also I’ll publish some polls in the future to ask on your opinions :-)

Update:
Do you want the dark theme?
Just put this file into ~/.config/synapse :-)

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  • http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/04/synapse-launcher-update-brings-new-theme-options/ Synapse launcher update brings new theme, options

    [...] change-log to this release, codenamed ‘Aspartate‘, reads thusly: [...]

  • http://www.ubuntusecrets.it/2011/04/synapse-0-2-6-nuovo-tema-doish/ Synapse 0.2.6 – Nuovo tema Doish « Ubuntu Secrets

    [...] info su Aspartate @ codingyourdreams.net Tag:synapse Ti è piaciuto l'articolo? [...]

  • JohnHoan

    Looking Great so far, though I have to ask; what exactly does the ‘Alternative Delete’ option do? I can’t figure out what changes….

  • Shaktimmaanshuvash

    so nice to use …

  • Doslain

    Thanks, Synapse is light and fast, that is just what I need.

  • http://codingyourdreams.net Alberto

    Alternative delete is simply a key to delete the last character you typed :)

  • aperson

    How do you use the ssh plugin? I can’t seem to figure it out.

  • http://codingyourdreams.net Alberto

    SSH plugin reads your settings into the ~/.ssh file :)

  • aperson

    Yes, that’s what the description says, but that doesn’t answer how to invoke it. I’ve tried typing in my hostnames, ssh, and other combinations of the two. None have actually ssh’d me into anything or brought up anything ssh related.

  • http://codingyourdreams.net Alberto
  • http://codingyourdreams.net Alberto

    Oh, I found a “bug”, the search (only for SSH plugin) is case-sensitive..
    Also (another bug) if you change something in the config file, you have to restart the plugin (or synapse) to have it in the search list.
    You can open a bug report about that (I have no time to do it right now, but I will if you don’t).

  • http://twitter.com/mhr3 Michal Hruby

    As Alberto said, it parses your ~/.ssh/config, finds hostnames you specified there and makes them searchable (the hostnames can’t have wildcards in them though).

  • aperson

    I’ve restarted my computer a few times, so I’d imagine everything has been refreshed properly, but it still doesn’t pick up anything in my ~/.ssh/config.

  • aperson

    And here it is not working :)

    http://i.imgur.com/MlVcs.png

  • aperson

    Yes, I know. I’m able to read.

  • http://codingyourdreams.net Alberto

    Ok, the problem is that you use one tab insted of a space in the config file.
    But this is a bug :) so, can you open a bug report?
    Thank you!

  • aperson

    I’ve gone through your launchpad page, but I can’t find the spot to report bugs. There’s another project named synapse that seems to be preventing me from filing bugs on your synapse. Do you mind linking me to the appropriate place?

  • http://codingyourdreams.net Alberto
  • aperson

    Oh, wow, I had mistaken that for a search form. Thanks.

  • https://launchpad.net/~gourgi gourgi

    good progress folks!
    keep going towards perfection ;)

  • http://codingyourdreams.net Alberto

    Thankyou gourgi! Listen, do you use an RTL language on your System? If so, can you come on irc.freenode.net/#synapse , because I need someone who can test a private branch of Synapse with an RTL system!

  • Asd

    great work!
    but there is one more thing to do:
    send emails:) synapse should read emails from contacts and propose sending mail to them.

  • http://codingyourdreams.net Alberto

    Trust me, in Synapse 0.2.8 or 0.3.0 you’ll be able to do that! :)

  • http://unknownerror.net/2011-06/%e3%80%90-translation-%e3%80%91-synapse-launcher-upgrade-and-more-bring-new-theme-of-options-33598 【 translation 】 Synapse launcher upgrade, and more bring new theme of options

    [...] Via | codingyourdreams [...]