some applications cannot be added to desktop widget by dragging

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I wanted to put a shortcut of firefox application to my desktop widget. I dragged and dropped the firefox from the kdemenu to desktop widget.

It asked me if I want to link it there. I said yes. It put an icon on the widget but it wasn't the firefox icon.

And when I clicked on it to launch firefox, it didn't work. There appeared an error message. And system tried to open it with Kate.

Then, I went on the desktop widget. Right-clicked. Selected "add application launcher". It showed me a different icon to add on the desktop. It was one of the system icons. There was "other icons" selection. I went there. There was the firefox icon. I selected that. And added it to the desktop widget. It launches firefox.

But the name of the shortcut is "Link to Application". Not "firefox". And it cannot be changed using rename option.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.2+build3+nobinonly-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-2-generic i686