Here is my problem: When I search from Unity's Dash Home for NetBeans and drag&drop it to unity launcher it, I observed that netbeans does not have access to my environment variables which were defined in my .bashrc file as follows

... 

export SCALA_HOME=/usr/local/typesafe-stack

...

When I run NetBeans from the gnome-terminal I don't observe that problem about the environment variable.

I also made a desktop file instead. Here is how I defined my netbeans.desktop file:

[Desktop Entry]

Type=Application

Name=NetBeans IDE 7.0.1

Icon=/usr/local/netbeans-7.0.1/nb/netbeans.png

Exec=netbeans

Terminal=false

Categories=Development;IDE;

StartupNotify=false

How can I modify this file so that it will be aware of the user's environment variables?

Thanks in advance,

Yours sincerely.

ciuncan