"Choose Application" Menu "Set App As Default" suggestion

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Sorry in advance if I missed something obvious or posted this in the wrong spot.

I do a relative lot of coding on personal projects, and I often open folders directly from Dolphin into my code editor (Code - OSS or various JetBrains products, depending). However, this requires two steps: setting the default application for folders/directories to be that app (so that it appears in the Right Click / Open Folder With menu), then setting it back to Dolphin (so that folders still open with Dolphin, including internal navigation.

I would like to make a suggestion to make a small change for this, but this likely doesn’t affect that many people, I don’t know which category I might put this in on bugs.kde.org, and community.kde.org/Get_Involved/Issue_Reporting said:

If you’re requesting a new feature, explain why the feature should be implemented: what use case it enables, who it benefits, why these needs can’t be satisfied in a different way, and so on. If you haven’t fleshed these out in your mind yet, consider discussing it on KDE’s Discuss forum or another online discussion group of your choice.

My suggestion:
Replace the Set as default app to open [...] files checkbox with a radio button with Just this once (default), Set as default app to open [...] files, Set as secondary app to open [...] files, and Add to list of apps for [...] files (not entirely sure about the wording of last one though).
Example Open With menu:

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In this case, Kate is the default, and Rider is the secondary. Adding an app to the “list of files” would append it after Vim, setting is as secondary would bump Rider down and place it in the Middle Click spot, and setting it as the default would replace Kate, bumping it down into the middle click to open position.

The dialog/checkbox in question:

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Also, it’s not entirely clear that the Show All Installed Applications button is a toggle, as the text never changes.

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I don’t think I really understand the use case, but are you maybe just missing this dialog where you can set application order in detail?

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in the newer plasma 6 versions you will be able to open with the 2nd (and i think 3rd, can’t find the reference atm) default app by using modifiers with your mouse click.

LMB opens with the default app.

shift+LMB opens with the 1st alternate app.

alt+LMB opens with 2nd alternate app.

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I didn’t know that menu exists, and that’s definitely helpful, thanks.

My use case was: in Dolphin, there is the Other Application option in the Open With menu, and I was suggesting to add a little bit more functionality to the Choose Application dialog there, as that’s one of the more obvious ways to change the default / order of applications, besides the File Associations section of the Default Applications in System Settings (which I also just found out exists).

Could also be solved by adding a button that opens that Edit File Type dialog to the Choose Application one.

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I think I definitely agree there. That’s one of those dialogs where you have to know how to get to, because the first place you’d look is.. the place you looked. Would be great to either come up with a solution to combine those two dialogs or at least have a button to open the “Edit File Type” dialog from the “Choose Application” one.