[kde-linux] Disable menu options in kmenu

[Kevin Krammer]

Hi Murray,

On Friday 02 November 2007, Murray Trainer wrote:

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

Menu items in programs are usually disabled when the current state of the 
application does not allow them being used, but where they are actually 
available in a different state.

The application launcher does not have a state, it can always launch all 
applications, but since on dual desktop installations there might be a lot of 
overlap, it needed a facility to hide certain desktop speific entries.

Since I have not been involved with the specifications this is based on, I can 
just guess that something like disabling certain entries just never came up 
during the process of writing and agreeing the spec, not that it has been 
rejected.

> 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?

It is possible to have different config hierachies for different users or 
groups (a bit like setting different $PATH), e.g. for freedesktop.org based 
items see [1]

The KDE tool kde-config can be used to display the current directory hierachy 
for a certain user, e.g. for seeing the search path of "launcher" menu files

% kde-config --path xdgconf-menu

Usually this is just the user local directory and the global one, where the 
user local one is usually empty unless the user has changed the menu through 
the menu editor.

[2] and [3] are two other links from my admin related bookmarks, maybe they 
are helpful as well.

Cheers,
Kevin

[1] http://techbase.kde.org/KDE_System_Administration/XDG_Filesystem_Hierarchy
[2] http://tinyurl.com/2oh46k
[3] 
http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdebase/userguide/kde-for-administrators.html

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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