Excessive file associations on installation

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Describe the bug I have noticed the problem because after installing vscodium, Eclipse started opening vscodium when opening "locations" because vscodium registered itself as the current/default handler of an enormous number of file types including directories(!) without warning or my consent.

Please confirm that this problem is VSCodium-specific

• [ ] This bug doesn't happen if I use Microsoft's Visual Studio Code. It only happens in VSCodium. I was already hesitant installing vscodium. I will definitely not install vsc.

Please confirm that the issue/resolution isn't already documented

• [x] I checked the Docs page and the Troubleshooting page and my issue is not mentioned there.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Install vscodium (via https://download.vscodium.com/debs in my case)
2. Launch xfce4-mime-settings (or similar in other environments probably?)
3. Look at the 'Others' tab
4. Filter for 'vscodium'
5. Notice associations with 'inode/directory', any text files imaginable/registered, etc.

Expected behavior IMHO applications should never make changes to any file associations (maybe apart from those the application established in the first place, e.g. MS Excel and .xls) but DEFINITELY NEVER register themselves as handlers for directories without very clear user's consent. I wouldn't mind if vscodium did not register any files at all.

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Debian 12 (current stable)
• Architecture amd64
• Version 1.85.2.24019
• App Manager dpkg/apt

Additional context I am definitely not the only one getting very annoyed by this behavior:

• https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/645402/41065
• https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/p6uabs/visual_studio_code_is_not_a_damn_file_explorer/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/13ge5jj/seriously_this_is_so_annoying/