donaldguy / macos-widgets-rs

A rust crate for working with macOS desktop widgets

Work in Progress

Current state:

1. Deserialization of relevant plist and contained structures is complete(?) and formatted is mostly-documented
2. Builds, few present tests pass (subject to inclusion of the data file which I may [or may not] want to ~sanitize, but you can do cp ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.notificationcenterui/Data/Library/Preferences/com.apple.notificationcenterui.plist tests/static_notificationcenterui.plist if you are so inclined)
3. Currently running cargo run should pretty print out the deserialized version of your present ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.notificationcenterui/Data/Library/Preferences/com.apple.notificationcenterui.plist
   • ^facilitating that as simply as posisble means that probably what mods and structs are public will be subject to change

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An unauthorized API (and CLI) for programmatic manipulation of macOS desktop widgets

Works by equivalent¹ of defaults write com.apple.notificationcenterui

Footnotes

1. or realistically more complicated pipelines ending with that to deal with fact of nested raw binary plists) ↩