Comments on: Kaleidoscope 1.0 http://iamthewalr.us/blog/2010/06/kaleidoscope-1-0/ by Colin Barrett Wed, 07 Sep 2011 22:35:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dirk Stoop http://iamthewalr.us/blog/2010/06/kaleidoscope-1-0/comment-page-1/#comment-43998 Dirk Stoop Thu, 03 Jun 2010 10:13:49 +0000 http://iamthewalr.us/blog/?p=283#comment-43998 <p>HI Colin!</p> <p>Thanks for the nice words and for your help with the beta. :)</p> <p>I think we're on the same page re. a 1.0. We don't intentionally keep our 1.0s as bare-bones as possible, but you have to ship at some point. And I prefer shipping something polished that does a couple of things extremely well, over putting the "1.0" stamp on a big unpolished pile of features.</p> HI Colin!

Thanks for the nice words and for your help with the beta. :)

I think we’re on the same page re. a 1.0. We don’t intentionally keep our 1.0s as bare-bones as possible, but you have to ship at some point. And I prefer shipping something polished that does a couple of things extremely well, over putting the “1.0” stamp on a big unpolished pile of features.

]]> By: perron http://iamthewalr.us/blog/2010/06/kaleidoscope-1-0/comment-page-1/#comment-43996 perron Wed, 02 Jun 2010 00:31:21 +0000 http://iamthewalr.us/blog/?p=283#comment-43996 <p>Some of the comments on Hacker News make me wary re updates: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1395024</p> <p>The interface and website design are top notch though! I hope they follow through on this.</p> Some of the comments on Hacker News make me wary re updates: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1395024

The interface and website design are top notch though! I hope they follow through on this.

]]> By: Colin Barrett http://iamthewalr.us/blog/2010/06/kaleidoscope-1-0/comment-page-1/#comment-43995 Colin Barrett Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:56:28 +0000 http://iamthewalr.us/blog/?p=283#comment-43995 <p>Mike: Yeah, definitely. Hopefully they'll add it soon.</p> <p>perron: I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt to a 1.0 product. In my opinion (and obviously I don't know if Sofa shares this), 1.0 product should do exactly as little as possible and yet still be useful. Kaleidoscope is still useful without merging & editing support, so it seems reasonable that they left it out.</p> Mike: Yeah, definitely. Hopefully they’ll add it soon.

perron: I’m willing to give the benefit of the doubt to a 1.0 product. In my opinion (and obviously I don’t know if Sofa shares this), 1.0 product should do exactly as little as possible and yet still be useful. Kaleidoscope is still useful without merging & editing support, so it seems reasonable that they left it out.

]]> By: perron http://iamthewalr.us/blog/2010/06/kaleidoscope-1-0/comment-page-1/#comment-43994 perron Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:40:13 +0000 http://iamthewalr.us/blog/?p=283#comment-43994 <p>The glaring omission is that you can't do anything once you're presented with the diff of two text files.</p> <p>Being just a viewer is jarring for the money. Without merge/editing support it's only half an application in a coder's toolbox.</p> The glaring omission is that you can’t do anything once you’re presented with the diff of two text files.

Being just a viewer is jarring for the money. Without merge/editing support it’s only half an application in a coder’s toolbox.

]]> By: Mike Cohen http://iamthewalr.us/blog/2010/06/kaleidoscope-1-0/comment-page-1/#comment-43993 Mike Cohen Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:32:53 +0000 http://iamthewalr.us/blog/?p=283#comment-43993 <p>The one major drawback is that it can't compare two folders, something I do all the time with Changes. However it's so much nicer than Changes in every other way.</p> The one major drawback is that it can’t compare two folders, something I do all the time with Changes. However it’s so much nicer than Changes in every other way.

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