Re: ~/.local? What's up with that?

Rui Maciel wrote:

> I've been looking around my file tree and I've stumbled on a strange
> ~/.local directory. That directory, which I never had the knowledge it
> existed, had inside it directories and assorted files which I deleted a
> long time ago and I thought they were dead and burried. To make matters
> worse, it seems it can't be deleted! I've ran a couple of google searches
> and I couldn't find anything related to it, possibly because of the "."
> character.
>
> So, what is that directory all about? What creates and fills it? And how
> can I delete it's contents?
>
Appears it is related to the KDE menu system (it contains a lot of *.desktop
files). 10MB size here, so no biggie.

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