fix: never leave Steam a file it would reinstall itself over

The patch that keeps the script's length was the good path and appending was
the fallback, with -noverifyfiles on everything that starts Steam to cover for
it. That cover does not exist.

Steam checks its files at the shutdown it runs itself, not only at a start
somebody handed arguments to, and that run carries no -noverifyfiles whatever
the session was started with. One wrong length there costs the whole client
package downloaded, extracted and installed again - and the client quits at the
end of it instead of coming up, which is the "Steam just closed itself" that
this was seen as:

    BVerifyInstalledFiles: steamwebhelper.sh is 130 bytes, expected 84
    Update wird heruntergeladen ... Paket wird extrahiert ...
    Aktualisierung abgeschlossen, Steam wird geladen ... Shutdown

So the flag now either fits in the space the comments give back or it is not
written at all, and the status screen says Steam is not patched. No autoscroll
in the interface is a far smaller thing than a client that reinstalls itself.

With no growing patch left to prop up, -noverifyfiles has nothing to do and is
gone with everything that carried it: Steam's launcher entry, its autostart
entry, the shortcuts on the desktop and the ones it writes for single games.
Steam repairs its own installation again. An installation from an older version
is taken back once through the flag scheme, and a patch that version appended
is rebuilt to fit at the next apply - or taken back, if the comments cannot pay
for it.
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@@ -43,9 +43,6 @@ msgstr "nicht erkennbar"
msgid "not patched yet"
msgstr "noch nicht gepatcht"
msgid "waiting until Steam is closed"
msgstr "wartet, bis Steam geschlossen ist"
#. Status block
msgid "Autoscroll"
@@ -155,9 +152,6 @@ msgstr "Autoscroll ist für %d Anwendungen an."
msgid "Applications that are already running pick this up when they are restarted."
msgstr "Bereits laufende Anwendungen übernehmen das nach einem Neustart."
msgid "Steam's launcher now skips its file check, which is what keeps the change from being undone at every start."
msgstr "Steams Startereintrag überspringt jetzt die Dateiprüfung – nur so bleibt die Änderung bei jedem Start erhalten."
msgid "Could not start the watcher for newly installed applications."
msgstr "Die Überwachung neu installierter Anwendungen konnte nicht gestartet werden."
@@ -179,11 +173,11 @@ msgstr "Auf %d Anwendungen angewendet."
msgid "Already applied to %d applications."
msgstr "Bereits auf %d Anwendungen angewendet."
msgid "Steam starts its interface in a way this version does not recognise; leaving it alone."
msgstr "Steam startet seine Oberfläche auf eine Art, die diese Version nicht kennt; Steam bleibt unangetastet."
msgid "Steam starts its interface in a way this version cannot change without Steam noticing; leaving it alone."
msgstr "Steam startet seine Oberfläche auf eine Art, die diese Version nicht ändern kann, ohne dass Steam es merkt; Steam bleibt unangetastet."
msgid "Steam is running and has put its own file back; the change waits until Steam is closed."
msgstr "Steam läuft und hat seine eigene Datei wiederhergestellt; die Änderung wird nachgeholt, sobald Steam geschlossen ist."
msgid "Steam's interface cannot be given the flag without leaving a file Steam would reinstall; the change has been taken back."
msgstr "Steams Oberfläche lässt sich das Flag nicht geben, ohne eine Datei zu hinterlassen, die Steam neu installieren würde; die Änderung wurde zurückgenommen."
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