[Kde-kiosk] KDE 3.2 desktop filepath changes

[Russell Brown]

It seems that KDE 3.2 has been 'enhanced' to use
/usr/share/applications/kde/....  to find its desktop entries in
addition to the, older, /usr/share/applnk/.../...  struture.

This has nobbled my Kiosk setup which uses myconfigdir/share/applnk/....
in KDEDIRS to control which items appear on the menu (either by using
Hidden=true in a .directory file or by Hidden=true in
/myconfigdir/share/applnk/.../<app>.desktop files that mask the
distribution .desktop files).

I tried creating a .directory file in /usr/share/applications/kde with
Hidden=true in it but KDE 3.2 is ignoring that and including everything
on the menus anyway :-(

So I then tried creating myconfigdir/share/applications/kde/kbabel.desktop
with:

 [$i]
 [Desktop Entry]
 Hidden=true

in the hope of masking the /usr/share/applications/kde/kbabel.desktop
file....  (as I do for ..share/applnk/) but this doesn't work either :-(

So.  How do I control what appears on the desktop menus in KDE 3.2
**WITHOUT** changing the distribution files in /usr/share/applications/kde ???

Thanks in Advance.

PS - any other 'Gotchas' in 3.2 for Kiosk configurators ????

-- 
 Regards,
     Russell
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