Directory Menu panel plugin doesn't handle .desktop with Type=Link well
The title already explains the core of the issue. Directory Menu panel plugin handles .desktop
launchers well, displaying and launching them as a desktop object. However, this only works with .desktop
launchers, but not location shortcuts (employing Type=Link
and URL=
). In this case the Directory Menu plugin lists the actual .desktop
files and opens them with a default handler application if set, but cannot launch them.
This was tested on xfce4-panel
version 4.16.4.
Though Xfce has a View file
file-type association available, there is no Open/Execute/Launch/Run file
. I still tried to associate application/x-desktop
type to open with xdg-open
as a workaround, but that expectedly did not solve it.