How to Hide Application from User Menu

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Created: vasant21 (04 Aug 2007)

Last edited: hamishwillee (11 Oct 2012)

In your ApplicationName_reg.rss file you will find a structure RESOURCE APP_REGISTRATION_INFO. You need to add the following line to the resource.

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	hidden = KAppIsHidden;
...

For Qt applications, the hidden attribute cannot be set directly in the generated ApplicationName_reg.rss file since qmake would overwrite it each time the project is built. Instead, add a RSS_RULES statement to the ApplicationName.pro file

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	RSS_RULES += "hidden = KAppIsHidden;"
...

This application will be a hidden application, and it will not be shown in the Applications list.

Example ApplicationName_reg.rss file

RESOURCE APP_REGISTRATION_INFO
  {
  app_file="HelloWorldBasic";
  localisable_resource_file =  STRING_r_helloworldbasic_loc_resource_file_1;
  localisable_resource_id = R_HELLOWORLDBASIC_LOCALISABLE_APP_INFO;
 
  hidden = KAppIsHidden;
 
  embeddability=KAppNotEmbeddable;
  newfile=KAppDoesNotSupportNewFile;
  }