[dolphin] [Bug 438119] New: More Convenient Adding of Applications to the Right-Click > "Open With" Menu

[Lonnie]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=438119

            Bug ID: 438119
           Summary: More Convenient  Adding of Applications to the
                    Right-Click > "Open With" Menu
           Product: dolphin
           Version: 19.12.3
          Platform: Other
                OS: Linux
            Status: REPORTED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: dolphin-bugs-null at kde.org
          Reporter: kde at startport.com
                CC: kfm-devel at kde.org
  Target Milestone: ---

Created attachment 139021
  --> https://bugs.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=139021&action=edit
Open With > Other Application

When I right click on a folder in Dolphin, and select "Open With", I want it to
list both VLC (my video player) and Audacious (my audio player). These
applications are both capable of opening folders and recursively queuing up all
files within that they are capable of playing.

Since they're not listed by default, I then select "Other Application" from the
"Open With" sub-menu, which gives me these options (link to screenshot below):
https://i.imgur.com/27ra1Nx.png

This does indeed allow me to ultimately open the folder (with my application of
choice), but it doesn't put that application into the "Open With" context menu
(so that the next time I right-click a folder, I can more quickly open with
that preferred program without having to navigate through the
application-hierarchy showcased in the screenshot linked above).

Even if you foolishly disagree that this "Open With" context menu shouldn't
automatically grow each time I "open a file/folder-type with a different
application", you'll have to admit that the best place to add things to this
context-menu is on the "Other Application" dialog that I've screenshot-linked
above.

The "Remember application association for all files of type" checkbox should
probably not even be available for folders, but even if you decide to include
it, it doesn't address the option of adding things to that context menu.

I'm sure there is another way to add things into that context menu, but I'm a
big proponent (in UI design) of placing features and settings "where they are
used" and not in some separate place that isn't "right there" when I'm wanting
to do the task.

So, I propose that you either add things to this context menu automatically
(each time the user opens with a different application), or instead add an
additional option to the "right-click-file-OR-folder > Open With > Other
Application" menu that allows the user to explicitly add it (the very first
time they're burdened with navigating that application-hierarchy showcased in
the screenshot linked above).

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