gworkspace and .desktop files

[Christopher Culver]

Are there any plans for gworkspace, and perhaps other GNUstep apps, to support 
.desktop files in /usr/share/applications? I would like to be able to open, 
say, .abw files with Abiword from gworkspace without having to add an app 
wrapper to the /usr/GNUstep tree. Of course, GNUStep apps should generate app 
wrappers, but gworkspace should recognise the abundant non-GS apps on a system 
through their .desktop files.

I would be willing to do the work for this myself, as .desktop files seem easy 
to parse, but I just wanted to know if work is already underway.

Christopher Culver