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This is what I hoped the Ubuntu Phone would be: a full-featured Linux distribution running on a phone! It also suffers from not capturing the Android app ecosystem, but at least it might drive Gnome to get responsive/phone-ready apps. Plus using the same base could enable some nice computer-phone integration.

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I'd rather Gnome focus on computer-ready apps a little more rather than chasing a phone future that will likely never come to pass.

I don't mind Gnome 3 but it has taken, in my opinion, too many steps toward mobile already.

While I would tend to agree, it's now already pretty much phone/touch ready, so it might as well make use of it. I feel like Gnome's UI is finally getting some consistency after having a lot of random changes from version to version in the past years.

I don't really use many of the Gnome apps as I'm mainly in the browser or terminal, but various things like the video player, image viewer, document viewer, recorder, webcam app, process monitor, all seem to have converged to being very narrow focused and simplified. I usually like the simplicity, and if I need more I turn to specialized software.

Actually I'd agree that changes have mostly been positive in the last several versions.

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