Comment 8 for bug 366963

I would just like to chime in with a "me too" since I just had to tidy up something by directly manipulating mimeapps.list.

I also use this feature and would like to see it continue to be available and also to be something that can be fully utilized without resorting to manually dinkering around with XML files. The idea that you might want to process or open an entire directory is not a terribly unusual one. I have been using alternate "directory browsers" since I was using dfm (before GNOME).

A flexible system allows the end users to easily come up with all sorts of interesting things that maintainers might never think of.

BTW, I am running 9.10. I would like to be able to edit the "Open With" properties of directories the same as I can do for files/filetypes.