Bug 477141

Summary: Add option to hide menu entry from Plasma search and menu
Product: [Applications] kmenuedit Reporter: Unknown <null>
Component: generalAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: wishlist CC: nate
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.27.9   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description Unknown 2023-11-17 13:43:17 UTC 
OBSERVED RESULT
There is no such option

EXPECTED RESULT
There is an option titled 'Do not show in Plasma session'

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.9 
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.112.0
Qt Version: 5.15.11

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
This is useful to easily hide developmental packages that are installed in Arch Linux when plasma is installed and to hide packages from other desktop environments if one or multiple are installed in KDE Plasma to remove unwanted entries from the search and menu.
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2023-11-17 20:32:13 UTC 
There's an option for "*only* show in Plasma. But if you want to hide something in Plasma, I think you should just remove the software, right? What's the use case for keeping it installed but hidden so you can't actually launch it? If you want this to workaround the issue of dev packages appearing on Arch due to Arch's policy of not splitting packages, I think that's something that should be directed downstream to the Arch packagers.

There is also an effort to reduce dependencies in KDE software to avoid triggering this issue in distros like Arch; see for example https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/issues/60.