Comment 5 for bug 11324

In humble option ... it would be silly if upstream partly duplicates functionality which is already there - gnome-panel should interface with Alacarte, which could then also provide a "properties" menu item on actual menus and sub-menus (compare with the "explore" feature in the Windows start-menu).

Of-course this means Alacarte first needs to be extended to support both "open with this sub-menu X open" and "just show me the properties of this menu item".