Support building with different channels w/ different branding

You can find icon resources here: https://github.com/brave/muon/tree/master/app/resources

Anthony started things here, and apparently it works for macOS. https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/tree/multi-channel https://github.com/brave/brave-core/tree/multi-channel

So still remaining is Linux and Windows.

You can see where we have different profile directories for each OS here: https://github.com/brave/brave-core/pull/46 https://github.com/brave/brave-core/pull/59 This doc might be helpful: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs/user_data_dir.md

We want to support 4 channels: release, beta, developer, and canary

User directory

For official build

• ~/Library/Application Support/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser-Dev/Default for dev channel
• ~/Library/Application Support/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser-Beta/Default for beta channel
• ~/Library/Application Support/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser-Canary/Default for canary channel
• ~/Library/Application Support/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/Default for release channel

For unofficial build

• ~/Library/Application Support/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser-Development/Default for all channel

TODOs

• channel option for build command (brave-browser)
• user dir support (brave-core)
  • MacOS
  • Windows
  • Linux
• install dir
  • MacOS
  • Windows
  • Linux
• app icon (brave-core)
  • MacOS
  • Windows
  • Linux

[bbondy]

~/Library/Application Support/Brave-Browser-Dev/Default for dev channel ~/Library/Application Support/Brave-Browser-Development/Default for official_build=false builds.

[simonhong]

On windows, channel info is fetched from executables path.

void InitializeProductDetailsForPrimaryModule() {
  InstallDetails::SetForProcess(MakeProductDetails(GetCurrentProcessExePath()));
}

In the startup progress of beta, Beta is fetched from “C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome Beta\Application\chrome.exe” and appropriate InstallConstants is set as a global variable. Then, this variable is used to get various channel information on runtime.

Need to check GetDefaultUserDataDirectory() in chrome_paths_win.cc

We have copied chromium_install_modes.[h|cc] version, however, upstream version is still compiled together. install_static_util target is including upstream version and is build as a separate library. I need to fix this first.