[popcornricecake]

Ubuntu Touch... I was so excited about it that I bought one of the phones with it preloaded. I even used it as my sole daily driver for months, until I learned that I was not receiving all calls made to me. Even after that I kept hoping it would keep developing so that I could pick it up again one day. But then Canonical abandoned it instead. That's when they became as good as dead to me.

[ddtaylor]

Sadly, KDE and Gnome each spent a lot of time on the same things. Plasma Mobile has ate more time that could have went into making Plasma a better desktop.

[kombine]

That's a strange argument. Open source software including Plasma Mobile is developed by volunteers who choose to spend their time on a given project. I am quite happy with the pace of Plasma Desktop and the progress made in the past 3 years on its 6th iteration.

[ddtaylor]

As a KDE developer I can say that there are times that we have done things differently or taken the long road because we wanted to support Plasma Mobile.

It would have just been better to continue doing the desktop specific things and let the Plasma Mobile enthusiasts make those changes.