Comment 1 for bug 1245300

From the menu specification:

"Hidden should have been called Deleted. It means the user deleted (at his level) something that was present (at an upper level, e.g. in the system dirs). It's strictly equivalent to the .desktop file not existing at all, as far as that user is concerned. This can also be used to "uninstall" existing files (e.g. due to a renaming) - by letting make install install a file with Hidden=true in it. "

We show hidden entries because users may want to turn them back on, but the menu implementation should not show these.

Yes, the cluttering of alacarte-made-nn.desktop files is an issue. I'll look into solving it in the future by giving the files actually good names.