[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#805654: chromium: Please set CHROME_DESKTOP env variable in the wrapper

[Dmitry Shachnev]

Package: chromium
Version: 46.0.2490.71-1

Dear chromium maintainers,

Chromium calls xdg-settings with its desktop name as the argument to check if it
is the default browser.

To get its desktop name, it uses the following code (function GetDesktopName()
in chrome/browser/shell_integration_linux.cc):

  #else  // CHROMIUM_BUILD
    // Allow $CHROME_DESKTOP to override the built-in value, so that development
    // versions can set themselves as the default without interfering with
    // non-official, packaged versions using the built-in value.
    std::string name;
    if (env->GetVar("CHROME_DESKTOP", &name) && !name.empty())
      return name;
    return "chromium-browser.desktop";
  #endif

On Debian, the desktop name is chromium.desktop, not chromium-browser.desktop,
so we need to export CHROME_DESKTOP env variable in /usr/bin/chromium wrapper
to make the above code work.

According to the debian/changelog entry for version 9.0.597.83~r72435-1,
there used to be such code there, but it looks like it was removed later.

--
Dmitry Shachnev
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