As for the installation of applications, you wrote in comment #3:
"dragging .desktop files to launcher for installation is required for natty"
There is a miscommunication here. I understood: starting the *installation* of an application by dropping it on the launcher. But I think you really meant making the *already installed* application a *favorite* (aka. pinning to the launcher). If that is the case, I completely understand your answers now and this discussion is over and this bug report can be closed for good.
ps: favoriting an application by dropping a .desktop file on the launcher is already implemented in Unity 2D
@Mark
Thanks a lot for opening the bug #708976
As for the installation of applications, you wrote in comment #3:
"dragging .desktop files to launcher for installation is required for natty"
There is a miscommunication here. I understood: starting the *installation* of an application by dropping it on the launcher. But I think you really meant making the *already installed* application a *favorite* (aka. pinning to the launcher). If that is the case, I completely understand your answers now and this discussion is over and this bug report can be closed for good.
ps: favoriting an application by dropping a .desktop file on the launcher is already implemented in Unity 2D