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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.

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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.

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.

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