Possibility to add "Create Launcher" to right click context-menu in Nautilus

[Kieran Grant]

Hey All,

I am currently using Ubuntu 12.04.1, so I don't know if this is
something that was worked on in Ubuntu 12.10 or is in the planning stage
for Ubuntu 13.04, but I am wondering if it's possible for something to
be done about the lack of ability to right click on the desktop (or any
folder in nautilus) and create a new launcher, this is only a usability
problem.

I know about gnome-desktop-item-edit /home/<user>/Desktop --create-new,
but that isn't user friendly, I know I use to be able to do this in
older versions of Ubuntu (back when GNOME was in use, at least I thought
I could...), but for some reason this has been removed.

There is a possible solution at:
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-add-the-create-launcher-command-to-the-right-click-menu-in-ubuntu-11-10.html

This works for the desktop, but I don't think it is good enough overall
as it doesn't work for any other folder.
I think a proper context menu item (possibly under the "Create New
Document") which fork's and exec's gnome-desktop-item-edit (or include
it's functionality) with the appropriate parameters would be better.

And I know about the SRU rules, and I know it doesn't apply to anything
on the SRU wiki, but to not have this feature in the LTS version would
be a real annoyance, especially for two years if you are in an
environment where you need to use stable versions.

I am suggesting to use "Launchers", as when most Windows users think of
shortcuts, they think of something where they can put a description, an
Icon, etc.... (Because Symlinks aren't that fancy :P)

I can live without this as I spend most of my time in a Terminal window
anyway, but I think this feature will be useful to those from
Windows-land who don't want to learn about using the terminal, and who
like little Icons on their desktop to launch stuff.

Does anyone have a better solution? (Is this in the works, or could this
be feasible in a future version of Ubuntu?)

Kieran Grant