Synapse
WARNING: this page is not updated to most recent evolution of the project, which will be implemented in 0.3.x series. Please come back in occasion of the next public release.
Synapse is the filemanager designed to offer to the user all useful facilities to navigate, explore and fully access to the Hyppocampus filesystem: easy access and manipulation of the metadata, facilities for the SQL advanced searches, graphical presentation of the searches results...
With BrainTop, it is the main target of graphical experimentations: here are collected a number of ideas related to the user interface paradigm to adopt in the new Lobotomy Desktop Environment, as the OnMouseShell integration (the point of agree between graphical interface and commandline) or the SynapseIconStackedView (a particular icon view where elements included into a group are graphically presented as a unfoldable stack of icons).
Initially, it would had to be the filemanager for the BrainTop desktop environment, then become an individual project into the Lobotomy hierarchy: curiously, it was the ispiration for the Hyppocampus Project, not the contrary.
Screenshots
 OnMouse-Shell (shell mode, under development) |
 "Actions" Panel |
 OnMouse-Shell (text input mode) in action! |
 The File Properties Panel in Synapse 0.2 |
 The bookmarks panel introduced in Synapse 0.1.3 |
 The GROUP BY rappresentation performed by the IconStackedView widget |
 Synapse 0.1.1, with the keywords bar |
 Summary of the properties (the metadata) for a file |
 The first panel for properties in applications |
 Synapse 0.1, just how appears |
News
Latest news about Synapse:
- 2008-08-27 11:32:21 - Document: Thoughts
From the Synapse subproject page is now available a new document (in Italian only, sorry...) explaining the templating environment which have to be implemented in 0.3.X series, already mentioned in past papers but now more deeply revisited. The XML language have to be more specified, but what just published describe well enough the direction for the whole project
- 2008-02-21 15:41:31 - Document: Deja vu
Just published an informal document describing a (far) future feature to implement in the new Synapse implementation (the one beginning with 0.3.x series of Lobotomy and substituting BrainTop as desktop manager): the cronological taskbar, friendly called "Deja vu". The concept have been partially explored and is scheduled for more analysis, feedback is welcome.
- 2007-06-09 11:21:20 - Synapse 0.2.3 released
The 0.2.3 version of Synapse have been released. Also if in this code changes are minimal (mainly bugfixes), the final application look a little different due modifications in Kiazma: a new query editor is present, and the icons presentation appears ugly due experimentations with the KiazmaIconStackedView which have to be tuned. This is to consider a development release.
- 2007-04-24 13:04:48 - Synapse 0.2.2 released
After some problem with the repository, the Synapse 0.2.2 comes to accompaign the relative Hyppocampus one: now queries can be inputed with a more natural syntax (but more works is needed in this context) and history is permanently saved. But the most relevant feature reguards the OnMouse-Shell: is now possible to select the "shell mode" and open a terminal window clicking and dragging the mouse cursor on the filemanager window; actually it do nothing exciting, but soon this will be more integrated with the system
- 2007-03-22 16:28:53 - Synapse 0.2.1 released
In the 0.2.1 release for Synapse we introduce the "actions" extension, which permits the user to add particular commands into the contextual menu for specifically identified types of files. News also about the behaviour of the OnMouse-Shell feature, which become a little more usable.
Downloads
The latest available release for Synapse is here:
You can also downloads older release versions:
Documentation
Technical documentation, mostly extracted from the code and automatically formatted with
Doxygen:
Informative (and informal) miscellaneous documentation, including descriptions of internals for Synapse, ideas for future implementations, elucubrations, notes and much more:
Development Tools
If you are interested about Synapse development, feel free to join the dedicated mailing list available here:
https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/synapse-devel
To signal a bug, to request a feature or to see the list of opened tasks for the project, refere to the dedicated trackers page:
https://savannah.nongnu.org/task/?group=synapse
