[Portland-bugs] [Bug 23123] New: detectDE should check DESKTOP_SESSION

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23123

           Summary: detectDE should check DESKTOP_SESSION
           Product: Portland
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: xdg-utils
        AssignedTo: portland-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: thestig at google.com


On newer version of Gnome, we have GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID=this-is-deprecated.
I've been told it's going away in favor of DESKTOP_SESSION, so we should
probably check that first before falling back to checking
GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID / KDE_FULL_SESSION.

This variable is set by gdm/kdm. The current version of gdm on Ubuntu 8.04/9.04
may set this to "default", which does not help us determine which desktop is
currently running. When I filed a bug with gdm, they said it should be fixed in
newer version of gdm, and also suggested looking in ~/.dmrc. [1]

[1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=589553


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