Account switcher shows displayname instead of username

(#3822) Bug Needs triage desktop profiles ui

Observed behaviour

The account switcher shows the accounts display/global name instead of actual username

Reproduction steps

  1. create or have an alt
  2. set the display name to something different than the username
  3. open account switcher
  4. notice that it says <displayname>#XXXX rather than <username>#XXXX

Build information

Canary Desktop 2026.1009.45608, Web 2026.1010.11814, Windows 11 10.0.26200 (x64), Electron 44.4.1, Chrome 152.0.7977.78, Node 24.21.0, Locale en-GB

Platform

Windows, Web

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