Feature changed by: Simone Ramacci (simosito) Feature #308388, revision 6 Title: Automatically propose to install firmware or proprietary driver Hackweek V: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: Mindaugas Baranauskas (embar-) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Ubuntu system's one nice tool: always notificates and proposes to install firmware and proprietary drive. OpenSUSE should also! Now, for example, openSUSE installs b43-fwcutter, but don’t inform, that I need to run /usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware. Now OpenSUSE installs nv, but It would be nice to automatically notificate about possibility to install proprietary nvidia driver Discussion: #1: Jan Engelhardt (jengelh) (2010-02-04 20:27:00) Just because Ubuntu does something does not mean we have to do the same. And then there's also the legal side which you have seemed to forgot. + #2: Simone Ramacci (simosito) (2011-02-21 11:38:16) (reply to #1) + I don't see the legal issue here. On Ubuntu jockey (the driver dialog) + tells the user whether the driver is free or proprietary. If the user + knows, what would the problem be? + Also, when choosing between a free or closed driver can affect how well + this or that piece of hardware works, it should be possible to choose + the best driver even if you are a newbie. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308388