.desktop file with .bashrc environment

I am using IntelliJ IDEA, and it uses some of the environment variables defined in the .bashrc script.

If I run its shell script from the terminal everything works fine but if I create a .desktop file to run it from the launcher then it is loaded without the .bashrc environment.

I also tried using the "Run with terminal" option and it doesn't help. Is there a way to do those things?

The content of the desktop file:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=IntelliJ IDEA
Icon=/home/gmarom/bin/idea-IU-135.1230/bin/idea.png
Exec="/home/gmarom/bin/idea-IU-135.1230/bin/idea.sh" %f
Comment=Develop with pleasure!
Categories=Development;IDE;
Terminal=false
StartupWMClass=jetbrains-idea

Moving the environment variables to .profile didn't work for me. Instead, I removed the code that @oliman suggests from my .bashrc and then I changed the my IntelliJ IDEA's launcher from this:

"/opt/idea-IU-163.12024.16/bin/idea.sh" %f

to this:

bash -c "source ~/.bashrc && /opt/idea-IU-163.12024.16/bin/idea.sh %f"

When running from a launcher, the idea.sh script is started using a non-iteractive shell. In your .bashrc make sure the environment variables are exported before

# If not running interactively, don't do anything
case $- in
    *i*) ;;
      *) return;;
esac

Or alternatively place the environment variable exports in ~/.bash_profile

.desktop file with .bashrc environment

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