[Xfce-bugs] [Bug 15532] Only show applications in list of applications to open with

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https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15532

scootergrisen at gmail.com changed:

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--- Comment #2 from scootergrisen at gmail.com ---
If Thunar can honor "NoDisplay=true" then maybe those .desktop files can be
excluded from the "Open with" list.
https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-latest.html#recognized-keys

I have these .desktop files using "NoDisplay=true":
/usr/share/applications/apport-gtk.desktop
/usr/share/applications/gcr-prompter.desktop
/usr/share/applications/gcr-viewer.desktop
/usr/share/applications/geoclue-demo-agent.desktop
/usr/share/applications/gnome-software-local-file.desktop
/usr/share/applications/hplj1020.desktop
/usr/share/applications/libreoffice-xsltfilter.desktop
/usr/share/applications/nm-applet.desktop
/usr/share/applications/org.gnome.Software.Editor.desktop
/usr/share/applications/panel-desktop-handler.desktop
/usr/share/applications/python2.7.desktop
/usr/share/applications/python3.7.desktop
/usr/share/applications/shares.desktop
/usr/share/applications/smplayer_enqueue.desktop
/usr/share/applications/snap-handle-link.desktop
/usr/share/applications/Thunar-folder-handler.desktop

And also 39 .desktop files with games from a game collection called SGT.
Having so many games in the application list really makes it messy if those
games/.desktop files are not meant to be used for opening files.

One solution could be to have an extra collapsed section besides Recommended
Applications and Other Applications.

We could could have:

    Recommended Applications
    Other Applications
    Not displayed Applications

The "Not displayed Applications" section could be collapsed by default as to
not take up space.
"Not displayed Applications" section contains the .desktop files with
"NoDisplay=true".

That way the user could be presented with a short list by default which
properly contains the application the user is looking for and still have the
option to unfold "Not displayed Applications" if the user is looking for a
rarely used .desktop file to open files with.

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