What's the best way to hide the preinstalled software you don't need from the KDE menu? - feddit.org

shared from: https://feddit.org/post/1848262 [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? > > 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 > > 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? > > Or is there a better way? > > Thanks a lot, and happy slacking!