Comment 11 for bug 1403293

Lonnie: being familiar with the Design team (having worked in it…), my suspicion is that this class of feature improvement often gets bogged down for (very) long periods of time. Therefore a method that can be deployed (or at least prototyped) immediately using existing external mechanisms is far more likely to succeed and get deployed.

The example ".desktop" might not be the ultimate solution, but being text files that are immediately deployable without needing system-level privileges I would hope are something yourself, or anyone else, could use for developing a fuller prototype and proposal.