Thunar (and others) cant find terminal

so after some time searching around internet i did not find anything that would work,
the issue i had is that my default text editor happens to be a cli application and when i try to launch a text document from Thunar it says that it cannot find a terminal for the application, launching the .desktop of the text editor does launch it in my preferred terminal emulator but only from 'rofi -show drun' other application launchers do not launch a window and i can't see the error because it does not spawn any error window, i have $TERMINAL set in my ~/.zshrc