Let user specify to install system-wide

[geertjanw]

i.e., dmg, rpm, and msi.

[emilianbold]

Isn't this the manual option?

[geertjanw]

Would be nice if it was done automatically from NetBeans.

[emilianbold]

Hm, automatically would mean doing something as admin which sounds tricky. But I think we should be able on some platforms to launch the GUI installer then the user can take it from there. Problem is they still need to come back and manually register the global JDK. The UX is quite unfortunate in this case.

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--emi joi, 11 mar. 2021, 15:46 Geertjan Wielenga ***@***.***> a scris:

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[emilianbold]

I think this issue should be not about what to do but how to make the UX better.

So, the way I see it, we could help the user in 2 ways.

1. Have another option in Java Platform called "Scan for installed JDKs" which they can use after manually installing a JDK and register.

So the flow would be:

a) user goes through the disco wizard, gets an EXE/MSI/RPM.
b) we reveal the folder / perhaps auto-launch the EXE
c) user closes the wizard
d) then the user manually installs the package on their OS
e) user comes back to Java Platform, picks 'Scan for newly installed JDKs'
f) we scan the whole disk or only the folder he tells us for JDK
g) we register them.

2. Have extra steps at the end of our wizard that wait for the global install and help the user register the JDK with the IDE.

The flow would now be:

a) user goes through the disco wizard, gets an EXE/MSI/RPM.
b) we reveal the folder / perhaps auto-launch the EXE
c) the wizard tell the user: install manually then come back here when you are done!
d) then the user manually installs the package on their OS
e) user comes back to the wizard picks something like 'Scan for newly installed JDKs'
f) we scan the whole disk or only the folder he tells us for JDK
g) we register them.

[geertjanw]

OK, let's try it like that.