It's a good Idea. Here in Uruguay we are thinking about making a similar application that uses some web service to show important messages for kids (for example, a new geography content available, download the activity to change your laptop, etc.) cheers, <div style="text-align: left;">Esteban Bordón</div><div style="text-align: left;">Investigación y Desarrollo - Plan Ceibal</div> CITS - Av. Italia 6201 - Montevideo, Uruguay <div class="gmail_quote">2010/11/8 Martin Abente <<a href="mailto:martin.abente.lahaye@gmail.com">martin.abente.lahaye@gmail.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hey Eben :) I am currently working on a messages notification extensions for dextrose (guess it will be hard to make it land on sugar main stream) but I was wondering if you could give me a hand with the UI design (mock-ups)? What we basically aim for is a simple message bubble (gnome-like) to display messages like: * Your battery is running out. * Could not connect to GSM network. * Journal is almost full. * Datastore crashed unexpectedly. * Automatic backup is running. * Etc... As you see, there are basically 2 types of messages (more or less) Informative messages and Error messages. Also I will have to implement a messages manager so the users can simply browse through the last events (messages), and maybe add more extensions like action buttons, i,e: send-bug-report button, disable APM, stop-backup(?!, just random examples). Would be great if you could help me with some UI design ideas :) Thanks, Martin (tch) Abente _______________________________________________ Dextrose mailing list <a href="mailto:Dextrose@lists.sugarlabs.org">Dextrose@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/dextrose" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/dextrose</a> </blockquote></div>