Terminal=true does not work in Shortcut Group

[David Williams]

I've tried to make a "launcher" for Unity, whose purpose is to have several options to execute some particular .sh file. Some those .sh files need a "terminal" and some do not. But, I have found that for a "Shortcut group" Terminal=true seems to have no effect.

Here's a simplified case to reproduce. For demonstrtaion you could likely use an echo "hello world" type sh file, but after having trouble with my real world case, I used the sh script in
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1706383.html
My own .sh files are long and complicated and have other prereqs.

So, I put the script in my ~/bin directory, named textmenu.sh and created a desktop file named "textmenu.desktop" which I later drag and drop on the launcher. The contents of the .desktop file (for demonstration) is

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Utility Menu
Exec=textmenu.sh
Icon=/usr/share/icons/Humanity/apps/48/administration.svg
Terminal=true
Type=Application
StartupNotify=true
X-Ayatana-Desktop-Shortcuts=one;

[one Shortcut Group]
Name=one
Exec=textmenu.sh
Icon=/usr/share/icons/Humanity/apps/48/administration.svg
Terminal=true
Type=Application
StartupNotify=true

Once in launcher, the first item "Utility Menu" does open a terminal (and shows results of .sh file). The second item, the Shortcut Group named "one", does _not_ open a terminal. From my "real world" example, those shortcuts would still execute and the applications still be visible (its a full Eclipse app) but, no "terminal" to view debug output, etc.

One work around is to use something like "Exec=gnome-terminal -x testmenu.sh" ... but, in my real world example, there's other complications whether to show the terminal or not so to always force a "gnome-terminal" in the short cut seems like the wrong place to put the logic.

I have not tried this on earlier versions of launcher. Current system info:

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10

$ apt-cache policy unity
unity:
  Installed: 4.24.0-0ubuntu2b1
  Candidate: 4.24.0-0ubuntu2b1
  Version table:
 *** 4.24.0-0ubuntu2b1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     4.22.0-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main amd64 Packages

I hope you find this bug report useful.