Have an envvar with the IDE value

[mrsimonemms]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe

Multi-user teams would like to automate tasks based on which IDE are being used for development. Depending upon which IDE in use, certain tasks will need to be differentiated.

Describe the behaviour you'd like

Have an envvar set with an enum of the values. For example, GITPOD_IDE with values VSCODE_BROWSER, VSCODE_EXTERNAL, INTELLIJ_PROJECTOR and INTELLIJ_CWM

Describe alternatives you've considered

Additional context

Request from a user managing multiple developers with different preferences for VSCode in browser, VSCode external, IntelliJ projector and IntelliJ Code-With-Me

[loujaybee]

Relates to: #6602

[akosyakov]

Have an envvar set with an enum of the values. For example, GITPOD_IDE with values VSCODE_BROWSER, VSCODE_EXTERNAL, INTELLIJ_PROJECTOR and INTELLIJ_CWM

In the case with desktop we actually run 2 ides. There is already an env variable for web: GITPOD_IDE_ALIAS which is either code or code-latest. We can add GITPOD_DESKTOP_IDE_ALIAS by analogy.

One thing is that we don' want env var to be an api, but instead one should use supervisor info endpoint to read such data or maybe we can add it to gp for end users, i.e. gp info which returns json object from supervisor and accept json path to get a concrete property value? @csweichel wdyt?

[loujaybee]

To provide a bit more context: the original user (@buggtb) in this case was trying to create workflows which work in either a browser context or a desktop context (as there are differences between set-up). There might be more elegant ways that we can allow users to provide these different configurations. Also feels loosely related to: #6706, #6874 and #6602.

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[loujaybee]

I don't think this issue is required any more with the move to fully integrated JetBrains Gateway, will close 🙏