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What's the best way to hide the preinstalled software you don't need from the KDE menu?
shared from: https://feddit.org/post/1848262
> I like the Slackware approach of installing the kitchen sink by default. Disk space is cheap.
> But I find that the cluttering of the menus in KDE is a bit annoying. I use search to start my applications, and a lot of the time I have to type almost the full program name to get to the app I actually use.
> What's the easiest way to hide a large number of programs from the menus, which is also easily reversible?
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> My first idea was renaming the .desktop files in /usr/share/applications to .hidden
> But they seem to be recreated automatically.
>
> Another idea was to copy .desktop files from /usr/share/applications to ~/.local/share/applications and then do:
> printf "\nHidden=True" | tee -a ~/.local/share/applications/*.desktop
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> But I tried to add this manually with one test file and it didn't seem to have any effect.
> Is there a config file somewhere that specifies in which paths .desktop files are parsed?
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> Or is there a better way?
>
> Thanks a lot, and happy slacking!
[Solved] Slackware comes with kmenuedit which can be accessed by right-clicking the app menu.