Comment 55 for bug 372132

I think Vish is right. Creating a new blank file and opening it with the associated app is the same as just launching an app. That menu is not an app launcher. The app launcher is elsewhere. Making this menu an app launcher would introduce redundancy in UX.

This menu is made to hold user customized pre-filled templates, not blank files. The "Empty file" entry is just meant as a baseline.