menu-spec URL entries

[Damjan Jovanovic]

Hi

While adding support to Wine to write desktop entries with Type=Link
for Internet shortcuts, I noticed that Gnome doesn't show them in
menus.

According to Gnome's bugzilla
(http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=374577), this is correct
according to the menu spec: only Type=Application is supported in
menus.

But it seems to me to be a pretty big omission, and several
people/projects have been bitten by this bug:
https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBINSTALL-276
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=355001

Is there some reason for this?

The workaround seems to be to make a Type=Application entry that
launches firefox, and make the URL an argument to firefox - but that
introduces a dependency on firefox, ignores the desktop's default
browser setting, and generally requires jumping through hoops.

Can we please make Type=Link entries work in menus?

Regards
Damjan