Brave-browser: Cannot create desktop shortcut for profiles in Brave Settings

[stevenmchoi]

Description

I'm transitioning from Chrome to Brave, and I use multiple profiles from my desktop, opening them with desktop shortcuts. However, in my Brave profile settings, when I turn on "Show desktop shortcut", no shortcut is created. Refreshing the page will show it switched back off.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Create a Brave profile.
2. Go to: chrome://settings/manageProfile
3. Turn on "Show desktop shortcut".
4. Refresh.

Actual result:

1. No shortcut on desktop for profile.
2. "Show desktop shortcut" is off.
   

Expected result:

1. Brave shortcut on desktop
2. "Show desktop shortcut" remains on.

Reproduces how often:

Always

Brave version (brave://version info)

Brave | 0.61.52 Chromium: 73.0.3683.86 (Official Build) (64-bit)
-- | --
Revision | f9b0bec6063ea50ce2b71f5b9abbae7beee319a6-refs/branch-heads/3683@{#858}
OS | Windows 10 OS Build 17134.590

Reproducible on current release:

• Does it reproduce on brave-browser dev/beta builds?
  -- Doesn't work on dev: 0.63.20 Chromium: 73.0.3683.75 (Official Build) dev (64-bit)
  -- Worked at first on beta, but then it stopped working: 0.62.37 Chromium: 73.0.3683.86 (Official Build) beta (64-bit)

Website problems only:

• Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Shields?
  -- N/A
• Is the issue reproducible on the latest version of Chrome?
  -- Works on Chrome; not on Brave

Additional Information

I'm creating this issue so that it can be fix in the Brave Dev build and also in case others are looking for it. For now, I'll be using the beta version

[LaurenWags]

+1 from a couple users on https://community.brave.com/t/simple-request-desktop-shortcuts-for-individual-profiles/68772

Note - macOS doesn't have this functionality now, so when this gets fixed it would be great if it could be added to macOS.

[sougat818]

+1