gvfs-mime not considering subdirectories of $XDG_DATA_DIRS/applications

[Peter Mattern <matternp arcor de>]

Hello.

It seems gvfs-mime doesn't consider subdirectories of 
$XDG_DATA_DIRS/applications.

I ran into this trying to configure Dolphin that comes with desktop 
entry file /usr/share/applications/kde4/dolphin.desktop:
          $ gvfs-mime --set inode/directory dolphin.desktop
          Failed to load info for handler 'dolphin.desktop'
Also, the file's path is translated into a wrong filename
          $ gvfs-mime --query inode/directory
          Default application for 'inode/directory': Thunar.desktop
          Registered applications:
               [...]
               kde4-dolphin.desktop
After moving dolphin.desktop to /usr/share/applications everything works 
flawlessly.

Posting here as I couldn't find any information in the specs whether or 
not subdirectories of /usr/share/applications should be considered in 
the first place and hence don't know whether or not this should be 
considered a bug.
xdg-mime does handle desktop entry files in those subdirectories without 
issues.

Seen using GVFS 1.24.1 on Arch Linux.

Regards,

Peter Mattern