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Should it also handle RPM, pkgtool, pkgsrc, nixpkg, Portage, Homebrew, PyPI, NPM, CPAM, CLTN, CTAN, .jar, and software installed from source via
./configure; make; make install?On the other hand, instead of putting all the responsibility on the GNOME shell devs (and the devs of every other application launcher) to support every software packaging format under the sun, maybe it would be better to put the responsibility on the people packaging each application to conform to the Freedesktop.org desktop entry specification.
I'm not saying your complaint isn't valid, BTW. Linux's lack of a central authority to dictate how things should work does inherently cause some problems that we basically just have to suck up and accept in the name of freedom.
But the point I'm trying to make is that, while Linux may not do something the way you would expect coming from Windows, that doesn't mean it doesn't [try to] solve the problem in a different way. The more you can let go of your Windows-familiarity-based "intuition" of how things should work, the better off you'll be.
(Speaking of which: one reason you can't find the equivalent of "Program Files" is that the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard collates programs' files by type—executables go in
bin, configuration files go inetc, and so on—instead of collating per application with all of its files together in a single directory. This has advantages and disadvantages that you may or may not care about, but one design isn't necessarily clearly superior to the other in all cases.)If those are all ways to install programs, yes.