Desktop files and Gnome

[Colin Law]

Since I am going to have to wean myself of Unity I decided to give Gnome a go.

I have a number of home spun .desktop files which I have added to the
Unity launcher which allow alternative actions on right click. For
example I have one that by default gives me a terminal, but by right
clicking I can ssh into a long list of servers. I have tried adding
the opening the application using the desktop file and then adding it
to Favourites in the panel, but the right click does not give me the
options. Is there a way to achieve something similar in Gnome?

Colin