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color: rgb(107, 116, 140);"><p>Can you elaborate what you tried and what you wanted to happen and what didn't happen? I'm a bit confused now @ <tt style="background: #ebebeb; font-size: 13px;">touch</tt>.</p></div>
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<p>A few days ago, you suggested</p>
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<p>When picking a new avatar from <tt style="background: #ebebeb; font-size: 13px;">user-manager</tt>, all the files all change properly: <tt style="background: #ebebeb; font-size: 13px;">~/.face</tt>, <tt style="background: #ebebeb; font-size: 13px;">~/.face.icon</tt>, and the <tt style="background: #ebebeb; font-size: 13px;">IconItem</tt> source <tt style="background: #ebebeb; font-size: 13px;">user-identity</tt>. But the avatar in Kickoff goes blank and will only refresh after a fresh login.</p>
<p>Trying to use <tt style="background: #ebebeb; font-size: 13px;">touch</tt> as you suggested did not help: the Kickoff avatar stayed blank. I issued it from a terminal, no change. I added a call in the QML to trigger an external command (don't have that nasty little hack on hand any longer), trying to trigger a <tt style="background: #ebebeb; font-size: 13px;">touch</tt> each time the Kickoff QML was run. Still no change. Killing and restarting <tt style="background: #ebebeb; font-size: 13px;">plasmashell</tt> also didn't work.</p>
<p>In short, the avatar files are all correctly changed, but Kickoff refuses to update. It "updates" once to blank, but won't update again to the new image. <strong>Sidenote</strong>: there's some code in <tt style="background: #ebebeb; font-size: 13px;">user-manager</tt> that explicitly deletes the old avatar, before installing the newly-chosen one. But even then, all the files get properly updated.</p>
<p>My machine crashed over the weekend, so I'm reciting some of this from memory. If I've got slight inaccuracies, I apologize.</p>
<p>I can put together a screen capture video if you want to see the steps I'm using.</p></div></div><br /><div><strong>REPOSITORY</strong><div><div>R119 Plasma Desktop</div></div></div><br /><div><strong>REVISION DETAIL</strong><div><a href="https://phabricator.kde.org/D13415">https://phabricator.kde.org/D13415</a></div></div><br /><div><strong>To: </strong>sharvey, ngraham, davidedmundson, mart, apol, abetts<br /><strong>Cc: </strong>hein, plasma-devel, ragreen, Pitel, ZrenBot, lesliezhai, ali-mohamed, jensreuterberg, abetts, sebas, apol, mart<br /></div>