kde "startup and shutdown/autostart" does not allow script to run

[Ian Proudler]

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 15.04
Release: 15.04

apt-cache policy kdebase
kdebase:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: (none)
  Version table:

Qt: 4.8.6
KDE Development Platform: 4.14.6
KDE Daemon: 4.14.6

Linux Linux8 3.19.0-22-generic #22-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jun 16 17:15:15 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

 "System Setting" / "Startup and Shutdown" / "AutoStart" offers the facility to run a script when KDE starts. One can go through the procedure and select a script and it appears in the list of scripts. However when the window is closed and reopened, the script is no longer in the list. If I manually add the script to ~/.kde/Autostart, the application starts as you would expect but the script is still not listed in "Autostart".

Note this came about because I discovered that kalarm would not autostart.