.desktop files

files in should not be executable.

As of 2017-06-16 many ebuilds create executable.

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Please report any violations upstream.

Ideas / Todo

 * we could check for the x bit in https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/tree/pym/portage/util/_desktop_entry.py
 * In the past there were discussions about requiring them to be executable: https://commit-digest.org/issues/2009-02-08/
 * 2017-06-18 asked on the freedesktop mailing list about the  file.