pin-to-launcher

Ansible Role: Pin to Launcher

Role to pin applications to the desktop application launcher.

Requirements

Ansible >= 2.9
Ubuntu
- Bionic (18.04)
- Focal (20.04)
- Note: other Ubuntu versions are likely to work but have not been tested.
A supported launcher
- Gnome
  - The default desktop installed with Ubuntu from Bionic (18.04).

Role Variables

The following variables will change the behavior of this role (default values are shown below):

# The favorite applications to pin
pin_to_launcher_favorites: []

Favorites are specified as follows:

pin_to_launcher_favorites:
  - application: # The file name of a .desktop file in /usr/share/applications/

Example Playbook

- hosts: servers
  roles:
    - role: gantsign.pin-to-launcher
      pin_to_launcher: gnome
      pin_to_launcher_favorites:
        # You'll probably need these apps pinned when using Gnome.
        - application: 'ubiquity.desktop' # The application search/menu
        - application: 'org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop' # The file browser
        # Pin the applications of your choice below.
        #
        # Tip: run `gsettings get org.gnome.shell favorite-apps` to
        # see the apps you currently have pinned.
        - application: 'firefox.desktop'
        - application: 'thunderbird.desktop'
        - application: 'rhythmbox.desktop'
        - application: 'libreoffice-writer.desktop'

More Roles From GantSign

You can find more roles from GantSign on Ansible Galaxy.

Development & Testing

This project uses Molecule to aid in the development and testing; the role is unit tested using Testinfra and pytest.

To develop or test you'll need to have installed the following:

Linux (e.g. Ubuntu)
Docker
Python (including python-pip)
Ansible
Molecule

Because the above can be tricky to install, this project includes Molecule Wrapper. Molecule Wrapper is a shell script that installs Molecule and it's dependencies (apart from Linux) and then executes Molecule with the command you pass it.

To test this role using Molecule Wrapper run the following command from the project root: