Telling the user about firmware updates

A common use-case that has appeared over the last week is that some vendors just want to notify people there is updated firmware available, but they don’t want fwupd to apply it automatically. This might be because an external programmer is required to update, the flashing tool is non-free, or other manual steps are required.

If anyone is interested in doing this for their device, there are just two USB string descriptors to add, and then it all just magically works once AppStream metadata is supplied. The device doesn’t have to be OpenHardware, so there’s no real excuse.

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Richard has over 10 years of experience developing open source software. He is the maintainer of GNOME Software, PackageKit, GNOME Packagekit, GNOME Power Manager, GNOME Color Manager, colord, and UPower and also contributes to many other projects and opensource standards. Richard has three main areas of interest on the free desktop, color management, package management, and power management. Richard graduated a few years ago from the University of Surrey with a Masters in Electronics Engineering. He now works for Red Hat in the desktop group, and also manages a company selling open source calibration equipment. Richard's outside interests include taking photos and eating good food.