diff -aur xdg-utils-1.1.1/scripts/xdg-mime.in xdg-utils-1.1.1.modified/scripts/xdg-mime.in
--- xdg-utils-1.1.1/scripts/xdg-mime.in	2016-05-04 15:23:20.469749854 -0700
+++ xdg-utils-1.1.1.modified/scripts/xdg-mime.in	2016-05-04 15:27:12.291243480 -0700
@@ -239,9 +239,9 @@
     # $1 is vendor-name.desktop
     # $2 is mime/type
     # Add $2=$1 to XDG_DATA_HOME/applications/mimeapps.list
-    xdg_user_dir="$XDG_DATA_HOME"
-    [ -n "$xdg_user_dir" ] || xdg_user_dir="$HOME/.local/share"
-    default_file="$xdg_user_dir/applications/mimeapps.list"
+    xdg_config_home="$XDG_CONFIG_HOME"
+    [ -n "$xdg_config_home" ] || xdg_config_home="$HOME/.config"
+    default_file="$xdg_config_home/mimeapps.list"
     DEBUG 2 "make_default_generic $1 $2"
     DEBUG 1 "Updating $default_file"
     [ -f "$default_file" ] || touch "$default_file"