The changes related to gsm_util_setenv during 3.19.x seems to have
broken starting a gnome desktop the old fashioned way, eg. via startx.

The gnome.session required components has OnlyShowIn=GNOME; which
disqualifies them from being started unless XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP is also
set to GNOME (by the gio utility function used to look up info).

Currently gnome-session already carries code to catch the case of
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP being unset and set it to GNOME as a fallback.
Unfortunately the changes to gsm_util_setenv seems to have made it only
set the values in the (dbus activated) child environment, rather than
the current environment which g_desktop_app_info_get_show_in is looking
at.

Make the fallback code set XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP in both current
and child environment fixes it.
Also move the entire hunk of code before initializing gio to
prevent potential thread issues, now that is uses g_setenv.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=764379