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classic: Drop separate gnome-session definition

Florian Müllner requested to merge fmuellner/gnome-shell-extensions:simplify-classic into master

Originally the classic session replaced gnome-shell.desktop with gnome-shell-classic.desktop (to add the --mode=classic parameter) and added nautilus-classic.desktop (to force on desktop icons).

Neither is the case anymore (and hasn't been for years): Nowadays the only expected difference is the GNOME_SHELL_SESSION_MODE variable and the DesktopNames field, which are both set from the session .desktop file rather than the gnome-session session definition.

Any difference in the latter - like not starting the USBProtection plugin and missing systemd user session support - are bugs. The easiest way to avoid those in the future is by removing the obsolete duplication that enables them, so do just that.

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