Track macOS defaults settings

[andrasmaroy]

References:

• https://macos-defaults.com
• https://ss64.com/osx/syntax-defaults.html
• https://github.com/kevinSuttle/macOS-Defaults/blob/master/.macos
• https://github.com/alrra/dotfiles/tree/main/src/os/preferences/macos

[andrasmaroy]

Te reduce code duplication when applying these preferences I should refactor settings defaults from variables.

An example of this is dsedivec/macos_ansible/macos_prefs task and vars. Note that this uses the dsedivec.ansible_dlc.x_osx_defaults (ref) instead of the built-in osx_defaults plugin. This should support complex data structures like dicts unlike the default.

Code snippet

- name: Set preferences
  dsedivec.ansible_dlc.x_osx_defaults:
    state: '{{ item.state | default("present") }}'
    host: '{{ item.host | default }}'
    domain: '{{ item.domain | default("NSGlobalDomain") }}'
    key: '{{ item.key }}'
    value: '{{ item.value | default }}'
    value_type: '{{ item.type | default }}'
    merge_value: '{{ item.merge_value | default(False)}}'
  become: '{{ item.become | default(False) }}'
  when: 'item.when | default(True)'
  vars:
    ansible_python_interpreter: '{{ pyobjc_venv_python }}'
  loop: '{{ macos_prefs_set }}'

# vars.yaml
macos_prefs_set:
- key: NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows
  type: bool
  value: true

To keep things organized when it comes to variables, those can be split to multiple files as well using the following structure (ref):

vars/main/foo.yml
vars/main/bar.yml