Interesting suggestion but that would lead to random behaviour (sometimes it work, sometimes it doesn't), consistency is better than magic that happens to work only sometimes (random behaviour leads to confused users).
What we recommend to do is to dnd softwares from the unity dash to the session dialog, that will add the desktop files will all the infos including a nice icon and a name
Interesting suggestion but that would lead to random behaviour (sometimes it work, sometimes it doesn't), consistency is better than magic that happens to work only sometimes (random behaviour leads to confused users).
What we recommend to do is to dnd softwares from the unity dash to the session dialog, that will add the desktop files will all the infos including a nice icon and a name