"Waiting reboot" text can be misleading?

[nekohayo]

Testing with the latest version from Flathub, on Fedora 42's GNOME session.

If you rename a device, you get something like this:

…where it tells you:

Waiting reboot

You need to reboot your system to apply these changes

There is some typos in there (ex: "Waiting for reboot", or "Awaiting reboot"), and a missing dot at the end of the sentence below it), but I'm also not sure this is a true statement, at least in some cases.

On my laptop computer running Fedora 42 (unlike my desktop computer, which is also running Fedora 42), the changes got applied successfully simply by logging out and back into the GNOME session, without rebooting. On the desktop computer however, it seems like a full reboot was necessary in practice.

Would it be possible to detect when it really requires a full reboot (ex: maybe with a system-wide pipewire instance instead of something running in the user session) instead of just a relogin? If so, when possible, a text like this could be more convenient for users:

Awaiting session restart

You need to log out of your current session (or reboot your system) to apply these changes.

[nekohayo]

Another way might be to ask systemd (versions 254 and newer) to do a soft reboot, which is achieved with systemctl soft-reboot, and works just as well as a full reboot (but much quicker).