Don't get why the developed didn't like it. That said, I would implement this at the Hildon-Desktop or Hildon-whatever level - that way you don't have to rewrite pieces of the .desktop files every time you set the program to be short-cut protected or not.

The problem is we already have so many Hildon Desktop mods, some of which are incompatible, that this approach may lead to annoyances for everyone who can't figure out how to pull the upstream changes they want together into their own source to compile, or who can't get the hildon-desktop pre-compiled that they want.