gnome_extensions
Ansible Role Gnome Extensions
An Ansible role for idempotently managing Gnome extensions.
For the moment, only supports downloading, enabling, disabling, and removing Gnome extensions that are available from https://extensions.gnome.org, as well as enabling and disabling Gnome extensions that have been installed via Apt.
Future plans include adding support for downloading via git.
Requirements
For obvious reasons, this role requires a host with a Gnome desktop environment.
In addition, the role currently uses Debian/Ubuntu-specific tools.
Role Variables
Vars
| Variable name | Required | Default value | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
gnome_extensions_url |
yes | https://extensions.gnome.org |
The base of the url used to download Gnome extensions. |
gnome_packages |
yes | [{name: 'gnome-shell', state: 'present'}, {'gnome-shell-extensions', 'present'}] |
The packages required on the target host for the role to function in the first place. |
Defaults
| Variable name | Required | Default value | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
gnome_user |
yes | n/a |
The user account to use to install extensions and to install extensions for. |
gnome_extensions |
yes | [] |
A list of items including the url and desired existence/enabled state for each Gnome extension (see below for details). |
gnome_extensions variable
Each item has variable has three required properties:
| Property name | Required | Type | Accepted values |
|---|---|---|---|
url |
yes | string | A url suitable for ansible.builtin.get_url |
state |
yes | string | present or absent |
enabled |
yes | boolean | True, False, or anything ansible regards as 'truthy' |
Dependencies
The role has no special dependencies.
Example Playbook
The following playbook:
- downloads the Open Weather and Put Windows extensions and ensures they are installed,
- removes the Gnome Screenshot Tool extension after first disabling it,
- name: Manage Gnome extensions.
hosts: servers
vars:
gnome_user: "instance"
gnome_extensions:
gnome_user: "instance"
gnome_extensions:
- url: "https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/750/openweather/"
state: "present"
installed: true
- url: "https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/39/put-windows/"
state: "present"
installed: true
- url: "https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1112/screenshot-tool/"
state: "absent"
installed: false
tasks:
- name: "Include ansible-role-gnome-extensions"
include_role:
name: "ansible-role-gnome-extensions"
Testing
The role is fully tested in Molecule on Docker and verified with Ansible with two exceptions: enabling and disabling Gnome extensions.
If anybody knows how to get enough of Gnome reproducibly running in Docker so that I can enable these two things to be tested, please let me know!
License
GPL-3.0-only
Acknowledgments
Big thanks to @PeterMosmans et al whose handy Ansible Role: customize-gnome inspired this one.
ansible-galaxy install piorkov/ansible-role-gnome-extensions