Kickoff doesn't update the name or picture when it changes. It ideally should. One should not need to restart plasma.
*** Bug 336903 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
it uses kuser that unfortunately is not a qobject (so doesn't have signals) it will have to work around that, monitoring the file ~/.face.icon and /etc/passwd directly for the name (quite quite crude, is there a better way?)
Accountsservice's Changed signal might be an option. Ultimately I think this sort of data should be obtained from accountsservice anyway. [1] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/accountsservice/tree/data/org.freedesktop.Accounts.User.xml#n769
I'll fix it.
Relevant patch which has still not been pushed - https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/118974/
Now it has, can we close the bug?
The patch was to use the Accounts Service in the KCM when setting the "name". This way one can easily react to it. It had nothing to do with actually reacting to the name change. I apologize for the confusion.
Git commit 060432bd8cf40f9e1a9856f68198a619319641f0 by Sebastian Kügler. Committed on 08/07/2014 at 01:36. Pushed by sebas into branch 'master'. [kickoff] Update face icon and user names at runtime Since KUser doesn't provide any change signalling, we're watching both, /etc/passwd (if it exists) and the face icon path for changes. The latter is a pretty static thing in KUser, so it's safe to assume it doesn't change at runtime. This makes updating the user's full name and face image from Personal Settings / Password & User Account update Kickoff's header work at runtime. See also REVIEW:119176 M +32 -2 applets/kickoff/core/kuserproxy.cpp M +12 -4 applets/kickoff/core/kuserproxy.h M +2 -1 applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/Header.qml http://commits.kde.org/plasma-desktop/060432bd8cf40f9e1a9856f68198a619319641f0