GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 374577
Gnome menus should support Type=Link
Last modified: 2021-05-25 12:46:07 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.
I believe the menu spec explicitly tells that the considered desktop files should only have Type=Application.
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
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.
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.
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