# Tighter integration with OS X preferences (aka defaults)

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/tighter-integration-with-os-x-preferences-aka-defaults/21775>\
**Category:** Ansible Developer\
**Created:** [June 14, 2016, 5:23pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/tighter-integration-with-os-x-preferences-aka-defaults/21775 "2016-06-14T17:23:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![nordjc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/6bbea6/32.png) [@nordjc](https://forum.ansible.com/u/nordjc)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 5:23pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/tighter-integration-with-os-x-preferences-aka-defaults/21775/1 "2016-06-14T17:23:46Z")

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(Announcing here in case users who would care do not monitor the PRs closely)

This new module should help those of us who have run into the limits of using the `defaults` command on OS X:

[https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-extras/pull/2392](https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-extras/pull/2392)

The most useful aspect of this new module is that it allows convenient access to nested dictionaries in application preferences (e.g. FK\_StandardViewSettings in com.apple.finder).

Please review, comment, and help get it shipped.

Thanks a lot!

John