Bug 436656

Summary:	Being able to enable global env vars in system settings
Product:	[Applications] systemsettings	Reporter:	Toadfield <toadfield>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	kde, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
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Description Toadfield 2021-05-05 20:33:18 UTC

What I want is a menu in the settings that is called "Global Environment Variables" and there you can add and delete environment variables that will be used globally.
I would find that handy so I don't have to look up which files I have to edit to enable global env vars every time I use another distro.
It would be really cool for new users,cause they usually hate editing config files.
The only question is,which file should be used for that function,but the file should work with xorg and wayland and all modern init systems,but I only know how to do that with systemd,you need to edit "/usr/lib/systemd/user-environment-generators/99-profile.local.sh" afaik.

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2021-06-15 23:36:33 UTC

Yeah, this could be generally useful.

Comment 2 David Edmundson 2025-10-23 15:15:00 UTC

I don't want us to do this. It's just opening up a UI way for users to shoot themselves in the foot, by setting
PATH=/bin  or something.

If an environment variable is useful, it should be surfaced explicitly with a relevant UI.