Ansible kconfig

Ansible module to manage KDE's configuration through kconfig.

Requirements

This module works by wrapping kreadconfig and kwriteconfig (KDE 5 and 6 variants, eg kreadconfig6). These need to be installed and on your $PATH. THey should come with any KDE install.

Installation

Install the realorangeone.kconfig collection from Ansible Galaxy:

ansible-galaxy collection install realorangeone.kconfig

Use

This collection defines a single module kconfig which can be used to read or write config:

Writing configuration parameters

- name: Set animation duration
  kconfig:
    group: KDE
    key: AnimationDurationFactor
    value: 0.5

Reading configuration parameters

- name: Get keyboard shortcuts for krunner
  kconfig:
    state: read
    file: kglobalshortcutsrc
    group: org.kde.krunner.desktop
    key: _launch

Parameters

See the DOCUMENTATION parameter in kconfig.py for full documentation.