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I'm really stuck; I want to add Open with vs code to the folders context menu following the same approach as for files by means of the so-called MIME; editing the file ~/.config/mimeapps.list allows me to change default applications for different file extensions.

My preferred default application is VS Code; I found inode/directory is the file type for a directory in MIME, so I added this line inode/directory=code-insiders.desktop to the file ~/.config/mimeapps.list in [Default Applications] field but Open with vs code doesn't show as I right-click on folders.

I can confirm what I did makes sense by showing the output of this command gio mime inode/directory:

Default application for “inode/directory”: code-insiders.desktop
Registered applications:
    code-insiders.desktop
    org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop
    org.gnome.baobab.desktop
Recommended applications:
    code-insiders.desktop
    org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop
    org.gnome.baobab.desktop

Similarly, the output of gio mime text/plain by which the corresponding files context menu appears Open with vs option is

Default application for “text/plain”: code-insiders.desktop
Registered applications:
    code-insiders.desktop
    libreoffice-writer.desktop
    org.gnome.gedit.desktop
    vim.desktop
Recommended applications:
    code-insiders.desktop
    libreoffice-writer.desktop
    org.gnome.gedit.desktop
    vim.desktop

The default application for opening text files by right-clicking shows Open with vs but not the case for folders.

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  • Any solutions already for this? BTW at the moment all folders (and all files recourseivly are opened in VLC-media player). Some misconfiguration. – SL5net May 17 '23 at 13:46
  • Just an note - there must be some entry for that, since after installing Konqueror, all directories open in that. Maybe inspecting Konqueror's install scripts would reveal how that's done? – Ondra Žižka Jul 23 '23 at 23:27

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