Thanks Scotty, you communicated these ideas very clearly and this all makes perfect sense to me. One of my main goals with Synergy is simplicity, which in the context of this discussion would mean a lower level of configurability / customisation, so pulling that template functionality out and moving decisions on to the user would (as you say) take the design in quite a different direction. A perfectly valid direction though, and one that would doubtlessly better suit some folk more than my approach - I'd love to see you fork Synergy and implement these ideas!
