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Desktop override providers

username-removed-132265 requested to merge desktop-override-providers into master 
Desktops providing the same file for a specific provider (eg.
google.provider) can now install those into
/usr/share/accounts/{providers, services}/$XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP
directory and libaccounts-glib will ensure that a particular service
requesting a particular provider first reads the desktop specific files,
only then it fallbacks to the other ones in
/usr/share/accounts/{providers, services}/.

More generally, the lookup algorithm looks for g_get_system_data_dirs()
and appends lowercase XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP to each search path first,
then tries the unaltered search path. In case two same providers exist,
only the desktop specific one is loaded.

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