Red Hat DESKTOP - Removing Submenus for Individual Users; Removing Menu Items for All Users

Chapter 3. Menu Editing and Configuration 11
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The user’s session must be restarted for the menu changes to take effect.
3.3. Removing Submenus for Individual Users
To remove the entire System Settings submenu for a user, use the <Deleted/> element in the user’s
$HOME/.config/menus/applications.menu file as shown:
<!DOCTYPE Menu PUBLIC "-//freedesktop//DTD Menu 1.0//EN"
"http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/menu-spec/1.0/menu.dtd">
<!-- File created by desktop-file-utils version 0.8 -->
<Menu>
<Name>Applications</Name>
<MergeFile>/etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu</MergeFile>
<!-- Removes the System Settings submenu from the Applications menu-->
<Menu>
<Name>System Settings</Name>
<Deleted/>
</Menu>
<!-- END of System Settings removal content -->
</Menu>
The other submenus of the Applications can be removed in similar fashion. Note that the name of the
submenus can be determined from the files located in the /usr/share/desktop-directories/
directory.
3.4. Removing Menu Items for All Users
To remove the Dasher menu item from the Accessories submenu, edit
/etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu, by adding the following before the final </Menu> tag
in the file:
...
<Menu>
<Name>Accessories</Name>
<Exclude>
<Filename>gnome-dasher.desktop</Filename>
</Exclude>
</Menu>
</Menu> <!-- End Applications -->
As mentioned above, the appropriate *.desktop file name to use for a given menu item can be
determined from the files located in the /usr/share/applications/ directory.