Created attachment 5704 Patch to add new option in desktop item editor Add GtkCheckButton (Hidden option) in desktop item editor.
Bad for user experience to have this.
Maybe an actual usecase would help understanding the need ?
(In reply to Landry Breuil from comment #2) > Maybe an actual usecase would help understanding the need ? FreeBSD user complains, because some applications are available in different categories. As with xfce4-desktop 4.11 we can edit menu (left click) so I created this patch, but I understand this bug can be closed.
(In reply to duchateau.olivier from comment #3) > (In reply to Landry Breuil from comment #2) > > Maybe an actual usecase would help understanding the need ? > > > FreeBSD user complains, because some applications are available in different > categories. As with xfce4-desktop 4.11 we can edit menu (left click) so I > created this patch, but I understand this bug can be closed. But if a user hides the entry, it wouldn't be shown anywhere. Wouldn't be a Category-editor more useful? The categories are defined by fd.o[1], so implementing this shouldn't be a problem. [1]http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html
Olivier: currently the FreeBSD users who complained would need to manually edit .desktop files and save them in ~/.local/share/applications/ with a single category each, is that correct? As far as Xfce is concerned, I believe we should just honour whatever categories are given to us. It's the job of app developers and OS distributors to make sure the categories are well-managed / not abused. Your patch does not actually allow users to fix incorrect categories, but instead proposes a proxy solution that works only for the single user who complained. It would be better to allow users to edit categories. I'm closing the report for now. Feel free to re-open it if you can explain why the current UI is a bug and how you think it should behave instead. Thanks.