feat: Allow user desktop overrides to hide applications from system level desktop files #90
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Hides applications which have both a system level desktop file and a user level desktop file where the user level desktop file sets either the `NoDisplay` or `Hidden` entries to `true`. This allows users to remove application entries without editing system level desktop files. Also add support for the `Hidden` desktop entry alongside `NoDisplay`.
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Hi! I noticed that in the application plugin there isn't a way to ignore applications whose desktop entries live in system directories gracefully as changes to these entries get overwritten when packages update.
Normally a user level desktop entry would be the solution but with the way they are currently handled by
anyrun, usingNoDisplayin the user level desktop entry simply treats the user entry as if it did not exist without hiding the system level entry. TheHiddenattribute which more closely maps to this usecase is also not supported right now in any kind of entry.This PR adds support for
Hiddenin general and allows users to hide applications defined by system.desktopfiles by adding a user level.desktopfile with eitherNoDisplayorHiddenset totrue.This does technically change existing behavior but I think the amount of adversely impacted users would be minimal as anyone who overrides the system level entries with an entry that hides an application probably would prefer this behavior. I considered adding a new configuration flag for allowing this new behavior but supporting this would complicate some of the scrubber code.
Let me know what you think!