diff --git a/src/plugins/qmljseditor/QmlJSEditor.mimetypes.xml b/src/plugins/qmljseditor/QmlJSEditor.mimetypes.xml
index f5ddfda7de0..3893b44252b 100644
--- a/src/plugins/qmljseditor/QmlJSEditor.mimetypes.xml
+++ b/src/plugins/qmljseditor/QmlJSEditor.mimetypes.xml
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
         <sub-class-of type="text/plain"/>
         <comment>QML file</comment>
         <glob pattern="*.qml"/>
+        <glob pattern="*.qmlproject"/>
     </mime-type>
     <mime-type type="application/javascript">
         <alias type="application/x-javascript"/>