Further to Dexter's comment, you could just create a link to /usr/share/applications in ~/.local/share, so:
ln -s /usr/share/applications ~/.local/share/
That way you don't have to make a duplicate file for each application that might be affected.
Further to Dexter's comment, you could just create a link to /usr/share/ applications in ~/.local/share, so:
ln -s /usr/share/ applications ~/.local/share/
That way you don't have to make a duplicate file for each application that might be affected.