Is there any goal in the roadmap of regolith desktop to make distribution-free?

[abdyek]

Hello everyone,

I want to use regolith desktop on other distros. Is there any official way for it? If no, do you have it on your roadmap?

[akspecs]

having a regolith tiling desktop experience available outside of debian (ubuntu) would be great! i recommended regolith to my partner who i pair program with. they like the idea of a tiling wm, but never had the time to configure or learn one to it's fullest extent. regolith bridged that gap immensely, and they are loving it!

with future wayland / sway support planned, the only downside i can think of is lack of widespread distro availability. but, nothing is stopping you from trying to package regolith for another distro of your choosing ;)

i'm aware of https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/regolith-full which currently has v. 1.6 packaged in the AUR. the package maintainer is working on getting v. 2+ packaged -- and i'll defnitely give that a spin once it is available (or try porting / packaging it myself ... )

i too only wish regolith's setup + configs were more widespread outside of debian based distros. other than that, i'm eagerly anticipating sway support :)

[kgilmer]

A primary design aspect of Regolith is to use the package manager's capabilities for system configuration. For example, to configure widgets in the bar, you can install/remove packages that contribute various bits of configuration. A cost to this approach is greater complexity in the packaging of the desktop environment. Additionally, Regolith is very different than typical Linux DEs. This makes the porting work more complex, and just more of it. There have been some attempts in the past to port Regolith to other packaging systems such as Arch, Fedora. I've offered to help out where I can but lack the time to be able to learn, test, and support Regolith beyond Ubuntu/Debian. If there were users adept at packaging for other systems, I would be happy to help them get started in packaging. Testing support and distro expertise are two areas we lack people in to move this forward IMO.