This issue seems to be out of TE-scope. Hence, adding label TE-NeedsTriageHelp for further investigation.

Thanks...!!

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+mario@ This seems similar to the work you did in  bug 553956 .  I haven't done my research, but do you know if Chrome should now add StartupNotify=true ?

@thomasanderson Oh, yes.. it does indeed need that now if it was not there already. Sorry about not mentioning this before, I was focused on the chromium side of things since we based our browser on the chromium-browser from Ubuntu, which already included this line in the desktop file that comes along with their debian package.

About the google-chrome package, though, I'm a bit confused on whether such change should be done, since I can't see the google-chrome.desktop file anywhere in the chromium git repo (I assume it lives somewhere else, where the packaging for Chrome happens?)

As the OP for this bug, I can confirm that the issue is still outstanding in Version 67.0.3396.87 (Official Build) (64-bit).

If this needs to be escalated to the "Chrome" packaging team, please let me know where to post.

Thanks. 

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Anywhere in the `[Desktop Entry]` section of the desktop file should be fine, just need to add a line with `StartupNotify=true` and that should do it.

Thanks, Mario.  I'll add the change on Chrome's side.

The following revision refers to this bug:
  https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/c405bafadea4b31024750ec6e536588e4b439f43

commit c405bafadea4b31024750ec6e536588e4b439f43
Author: Tom Anderson <thomasanderson@chromium.org>
Date: Wed Jun 20 18:10:05 2018

Add StartupNotify=true to Linux desktop entry

Startup notification is a mechanism for apps to notify the desktop environment
when they are finished starting [1].  Desktop environments may use this to
eg. animate a progress spinner on an app icon until it's finished starting.

As of r565390 [2], Chrome should correctly send the notification.  To let the
launcher know that Chrome now supports this protocol, advertise it by adding
StartupNotify=true to the desktop entry.

[1] https://developer.gnome.org/integration-guide/stable/startup-notification.html.en
[2] https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/0a85ddf22d19c89ca524182b42f938ebf4fa50a0

BUG= 732443 
R=thestig
CC=mario@endlessm.com

Change-Id: Id37dba4b7272e30316e930f6dc0eb625c7107ba6
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/1108354
Reviewed-by: Michael Moss <mmoss@chromium.org>
Commit-Queue: Thomas Anderson <thomasanderson@chromium.org>
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#568924}
[modify] https://crrev.com/c405bafadea4b31024750ec6e536588e4b439f43/chrome/installer/linux/common/desktop.template