[tor-bugs] #15672 [Tor Browser]: Provide command line args to register Tor Browser as a Linux desktop app

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#15672: Provide command line args to register Tor Browser as a Linux desktop app
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     Reporter:           |      Owner:  mikeperry
  mikeperry              |     Status:  needs_review
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  enhancement            |    Version:
     Priority:  normal   |   Keywords:  tbb-4.5-alpha,
    Component:  Tor      |  TorBrowserTeam201504R
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Comment (by mikeperry):

 Replying to [comment:2 gk]:
 > Looks good to me (I don't see that Unity bug on an Ubuntu 12.04 btw).
 Two things that I was thinking about while looking at the code and
 testing:
 >
 > 1) Why not allowing `--debug` and, say, `--register-app` at the same
 time? I.e. being able to use more than one command line argument might be
 handy.

 I think we should file another ticket for multiple arg support if we
 really want that. It is a bit risky to try at this point for 4.5. Right
 now though, --register-app and --unregister-app do not squelch output of
 the script or the commands it calls, so --debug seems unnecessary.

 > 2) Instead of copying `start-tor-browser.desktop` again and again if a
 user is starting with `--register-app` several times you could do the same
 as in the "unregistering" case: check if the file already exists and if so
 saying that to the user and otherwise copying the .desktop file.

 I thought about this, but I wanted to make the usecase where the user has
 relocated their TBB and needs to reregister the app as a result (to update
 the paths) not require multiple steps. Simply running the register step
 without existence checks seemed the simplest way to accomplish this.

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