How to run an .sh file from main menu using Mate-terminal?

[Bill_MI]

Some additional discussion why this is not getting fixed and a not-too-bad alternate workaround...

Launcher 'Application in Terminal' uses mate-terminal

THE PROBLEM Creating a panel or desktop launcher of type: “Application in Terminal” has had some strangeness for quite a while. I just found 16.04 (beta 2) has xterm default installed so it gets used. This may be a good solution for many reasons, but can we get mate-terminal to run, instead? I discovered the problem is a glib interpretation of the .desktop launcher category for the terminal - so a little difficult to fix. It will execute xterm, if present, and others including gnome-termina…