Hello,

startkde (from plasma-workspace) is using kf5-config to get kde library path:

# Source scripts found in <localprefix>/env/*.sh and <prefixes>/env/*.sh
# (where <localprefix> is $KDEHOME or ~/.kde, and <prefixes> is where KDE is installed)
#
# This is where you can define environment variables that will be available to
# all KDE programs, so this is where you can run agents using e.g. eval `ssh-agent`
# or eval `gpg-agent --daemon`.
# Note: if you do that, you should also put "ssh-agent -k" as a shutdown script
#
# (see end of this file).
# For anything else (that doesn't set env vars, or that needs a window manager),
# better use the Autostart folder.

libpath=`kf5-config --path lib | tr : '\n'`

for prefix in `echo "$libpath" | sed -n -e 's,/lib[^/]*/,/env/,p'`; do
  for file in "$prefix"*.sh; do
    test -r "$file" && . "$file"
  done
done

However, kf5-config is only listing /usr/lib64:

$ kf5-config --path lib
/usr/lib64/

While kde4-config listed user home as well:

$ kde4-config --path lib
/home/REDETRESC/luizluca/.kde4/lib64/:/usr/lib64/

Also, as kf5-config is from kdelibs4support, startkde might not depend on it for long time.

Maybe looking for a lib directory and replacing lib.* by env is a little too hack.
For example, a user named liberty might get trouble:
   
$ echo "/home/liberty/.kf5/lib64" | sed -n -e 's,/lib[^/]*/,/env/,p'
/home/env/.kf5/lib64

I also reported another problem related to autostart app on bug 333241.




Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.create a script as .kf5/env/test.sh
2.log in into kf5

Actual Results:  
3. test.sh does not run

Expected Results:  
3. test.sh should run

kf5-config also has other problems (as well as kde4-config). But maybe they are not worth to fix:

luizluca(tresc031501) /opt/kf5/bin $ kde4-config --userpath desktop
/home/REDETRESC/luizluca/Desktop/ <---OK

luizluca(tresc031501) /opt/kf5/bin $ kde4-config --userpath autostart
/home/REDETRESC/luizluca/Autostart/ <---- should be /home/REDETRESC/luizluca/.kde4/Autostart or /home/REDETRESC/luizluca/.local/autostart (defined in systemsettings/personal-information)

luizluca(tresc031501) /opt/kf5/bin $ kde4-config --userpath document
/home/REDETRESC/luizluca/Documentos/ <---OK

and

luizluca(tresc031501) /opt/kf5/bin $ kf5-config --userpath desktop
/home/REDETRESC/luizluca/Desktop <---OK

luizluca(tresc031501) /opt/kf5/bin $ kf5-config --userpath autostart
autostart - unknown type of userpath <---???? missing ???

luizluca(tresc031501) /opt/kf5/bin $ kf5-config --userpath document
/home/REDETRESC/luizluca/Documentos <---OK