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@hein : Thanks for the time spent investigating. The User Manager KCM appears to write out proper (non-corrupt) files, at least in my testing. I know there's a KDirWatch in one of the included Frameworks (KCoreAddons, I think), but that seems to work properly. It does indeed copy the file to the other places where it belongs. I'm still at a loss as to why it goes blank, but works when plasmashell is restarted. So Kickoff is picking up on the fact that there's been a change, but the operation doesn't complete. Is there a way to force a refresh of Kickoff, an equivalent to `kpackage5`'s "update" functiion? REPOSITORY R119 Plasma Desktop REVISION DETAIL https://phabricator.kde.org/D13415 To: sharvey, ngraham, davidedmundson, mart, apol, abetts Cc: hein, plasma-devel, ragreen, Pitel, ZrenBot, lesliezhai, ali-mohamed, jensreuterberg, abetts, sebas, apol, mart