I think you’re wrong here … (see below)
I think your right, I’d just rather say “will likely be shipped”
@Numeric, have you read this November post? Did you follow the links to seba’s blog, the Plasma roadmap and finally this prototype video from 2015?
Except for the sound, that video amazed me. I would totally accept that as initial release on the Librem 5. But again: That prototype is 2.5 years old! I have always been a KDE lover, but when (desktop) Plasma was introduced I just thought how silly of them to just follow a new trend (widgets) instead of refining existing stuff. But now it makes so much sense.
I totally trust the Purism guys to do the right thing. I’ve seen it in everything they did so far. It makes sense, even if every now and then wise-guy shows up and tell’s them how to run their business better, for example by NOT having PureOS. Or, be “less pure”, ditching FSF endorsement.
But it all makes so much sense in the long run - and Purism is about the long run.
As said, im not a Gnome guy. Not at all. Plasma is all I would ever want on my desktop or mobile. (Maybe Gnome mobile will surprise me one day…) Why do I still think it is very smart to support both projects?
@nicole.faerber said it’s because that’s their default UI choice. But there’s more: Purism is a company that gives back to the community. And more importantly: Working with (and on) the two major UI projects with the goal of “The ability for users to switch” should give us some confidence that it will not be a new kind of walled garden. It has been discussed here before, how important it is to have standards and APIs. Like a shared phone book data base that will/can be used by Gnome and Plasma if you want to switch.
In other words, Purism is not just doing “their thing” that will likely fail spectacularly like all the other attempts of bigger companies, they support the FLOSS community to do their thing, hopefully leading to interoperatable environments, maybe even with some blessing of freedesktop.org sprinkeled on top 