Synapse had been awesome

[bebehei]

Regarding #195, I have to ask for removal of Synapse in this list.

First things first: Synapse is not a file manager, it's an application launcher. So, at least it should be categorized somewhere else if it turns out, that it should stay.

My experience with synapse: It "works" but that's all. There are plenty of alternatives (e.g. albert), which work better.

Why should it get removed from this list:

• The latest patch-release got release over 2 years ago.
• No development on official branches since for more than a year
• The project on launchpad is "dead". There is no activity in the bugtracker and all other sections.
• The actual website and wiki is broken. A year ago the wiki failed to have a MySQL connection, now the domain even got crawled by a scammer.
  • https://bugs.launchpad.net/synapse-project/+bug/1581623
  • https://bugs.launchpad.net/synapse-project/+bug/1542481
  • https://bugs.launchpad.net/synapse-project/+bug/1474109
  • https://bugs.launchpad.net/synapse-project/+bug/1634399
  • All issues on this topic are unanswered in the bugtracker. And in contradiction to a coding problem, this is not solvable as an external person.
• But the worst detail is, that the documentation of all plugins is stored in the wiki. So you open up synapse, want to checkout the plugin, click on the "More" button, the browser opens and it displays an invalid URL. That's very distracting and not awesome.

[luong-komorebi]

I'm really grateful @bebehei. Your issue is so thorough that it makes me want to double-check everything right now. But since it's alr midnight where I live, please leave me some time to look at all these problems with Synapse 😉

[luong-komorebi]

@bebehei , I removed synapse 👍 can confirm what you said is true.