pop-os
Add firmware update support
Moving issue to cosmic-settings per WatchMkr's comment
Problem: Currently when Cosmic detects a firmware upgrade it shows a notification with a prompt to click to update. Currently clicking that prompt does nothing
Suggestion: Add firmware support to cosmic-settings to handle firmware updates and update the notification to have an onclick to pull up cosmic-settings and the section for firmware updates. Maybe update the onclick to dismiss the notification and inform user firmware upgrades aren't supported yet if this feature isn't planned for alpha to prevent confusion.
Example of current notification:
We will be providing our firmware-manager-gtk app beside cosmic-settings until we migrate firmware updates into cosmic-settings.
Running fwupdmgr get-devices lists multiple devices (CPU, NVMe drive, TPM, two UEFI device firmware entries, BootGuard, dbx, etc.).
Six of these entries have the updatable flag.
However, the Firmware page in COSMIC Settings is still completely blank (screenshot attached below).
It seems COSMIC currently displays only a “system firmware / BIOS” device, and since Dell does not publish BIOS updates for this model to LVFS, the whole page appears empty even though other fwupd-updatable devices exist.
Suggestion: It would improve the UX if Settings displayed:
- all fwupd-supported devices or
- at least a message such as “No system firmware updates available for this device” instead of showing a blank screen.
This would avoid confusion for systems where fwupd works but the OEM doesn’t publish BIOS firmware to LVFS.