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Bug 374577 - Gnome menus should support Type=Link
Gnome menus should support Type=Link
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-menus
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-menus dummy account
gnome-menus dummy account
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-11-13 07:26 UTC by Jordan Mantha
Modified: 2021-05-25 12:46 UTC
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Description Jordan Mantha 2006-11-13 07:26:47 UTC
Gnome menus don't support .desktop files with Type=Link. This is useful for adding "bookmarks" to the menu. Nautilus seems to support it for the desktop and it'd be nice if this behavior was consistent.
Comment 1 Vincent Untz 2007-01-11 15:06:51 UTC
I believe the menu spec explicitly tells that the considered desktop files should only have Type=Application.
Comment 2 João Miguel Neves 2007-01-29 20:17:27 UTC
Acording to the latest menu-spec, only Desktop Entries (Type=Application) and Directory Entries (Type=Directory) are supposed to show up in a menu:

http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/go01.html

Comment 3 Andrew 2007-03-12 19:30:17 UTC
Can someone change or embrace-extend the spec?  Links are useful.  For example, on our office system we want to add web-applications and intranet links.  Currently, it's accomplished through hack-ish methods.
Comment 4 kane.mx 2009-09-03 06:04:37 UTC
I think so.

(In reply to comment #3)
> Can someone change or embrace-extend the spec?  Links are useful.  For example,
> on our office system we want to add web-applications and intranet links. 
> Currently, it's accomplished through hack-ish methods.
Comment 5 André Klapper 2021-05-25 12:46:07 UTC
GNOME is going to shut down bugzilla.gnome.org in favor of gitlab.gnome.org.
As part of that, we are mass-closing older open tickets in bugzilla.gnome.org
which have not seen updates for a longer time (resources are unfortunately
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If you can still reproduce the situation described in this ticket in a recent
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