[kde-linux] Disable menu options in kmenu

[Murray Trainer]

> On Thursday 01 November 2007, Murray Trainer wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > We have custom KDE menu files for different KDE kiosk profiles.  I want
> > to make some menu items disabled (ie greyed out) in one menu file and
> > active in another.  I can't see any way of disabling menu items in the
> > menu file or .desktop files.  It appears to only be possible to delete
> > or hide the entry.  Is there any workaround I can use?
> 
> I am afraid this currently is neither supported by the freedesktop.org 
> desktop-entry specification (used for the menu entries) nor by the menu 
> specification since this probably didn't come up as a use case when the 
> specification was developed.
> 
> It might be possible to address this in a future version of the 
> specifications, though I would imagine that there could be quite some 
> resistance since it would mean changes in several implementations of those 
> specs.
> 
> Cheers,
> Kevin
> 

Hi Kevin,

Thanks for the reply.  Looks like a glaring omission to me.  KDE
applications can have greyed out menu options so why not kmenu?  

Anyway, is there something I can do in the .desktop file to stop it
running or change it's behaviour for certain groups of users?  

Thanks

Murray