I am starting to customize my N9 with hand-made *.desktop files in
/home/user/.local/share/applications

It's all nice and pretty, except that I cannot remove an entry from the launcher the way I can delete a bookmark set by the browser. (In other words: there's not red 'x' that allows me to delete the icon.)

Maybe the UI design principle behind this is that the launcher screen won't let you remove anything if it doesn't know what 'remove' means... uninstall something? Simply delete something? ...?

Anyway, how can I tell Harmattan that it may safely delete my handmade *desktop-files from the directory without any further action?