Improve the usability of the Environment Variables UI dialog, as well as the ease of accessing it.
Basic example
Currently, accessing the Environment Variables UI dialog in Windows involves five or six clicks through the Control Panel and Advanced Settings, or running a Powershell command that you need to look up each time.
The UI dialog also doesn't make it easy to add multiple variables at the same time, doesn't support copying-and-pasting variables, and makes it difficult to view the entirety of a long value for an environment variable (like the Path variable).
Motivation
Java developers often interact with environment variables when installing tools like Gradle or Maven. Improving the accessibility and usability of the Environment Variables dialog will make it much simpler to manage these settings and reduce the frequency of errors encountered when setting up a new tool that requires one or more environment variables to be configured.
Summary
Improve the usability of the Environment Variables UI dialog, as well as the ease of accessing it.
Basic example
Currently, accessing the Environment Variables UI dialog in Windows involves five or six clicks through the Control Panel and Advanced Settings, or running a Powershell command that you need to look up each time.
The UI dialog also doesn't make it easy to add multiple variables at the same time, doesn't support copying-and-pasting variables, and makes it difficult to view the entirety of a long value for an environment variable (like the
Pathvariable).Motivation
Java developers often interact with environment variables when installing tools like Gradle or Maven. Improving the accessibility and usability of the Environment Variables dialog will make it much simpler to manage these settings and reduce the frequency of errors encountered when setting up a new tool that requires one or more environment variables to be configured.