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Whenever I use the KDE menu editor to change the layout of the KDE application menu, the configuration file ~/.config/menus/applications-kmenuedit.menu changes.

This file seems to collect a lot of garbage every time an item is created, moved, changed, or deleted. It has now grown to over 100kB and is very confusing to read, and I am having trouble with menus that refuse to be renamed. There are still entries for applications I removed years ago.

Is there any way I can clean this file from unnecessary junk that's accumulated?
I don't want to delete it and start from scratch because it would be a lot of work to recreate my highly customized menus

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I think the menu file is generated from the *.desktop files on your system.

You may look at the following locations

  • /usr/share/applications
  • ~/.local/share/applications/

And remove whatever you don't need. (Or add Hidden=true the desktop file)

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  • If I were to delete the menu file and restart from scratch then it would be recreated from the .desktop files. But starting from scratch is exactly what I am trying to avoid, because I want my personal menu structure – PiedPiper Nov 13 '17 at 14:53
  • If the menu file is deleted, then /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu is used as the default – PiedPiper Nov 15 '17 at 11:44

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