+1 I agree, visual spam is a big concern. But it does not depend exclusively on technical details, a usage policy is also needed. There is another interesting topic about notifications: So far the notifications are not persistent (they get deleted when the session ends). I was thinking we could add some mechanism for making notifications persistent (if users do it it explicitly). Persistence makes sense in critical errors notifications scenarios, otherwise users would have to keep their current session active to show the error to the teacher or local technician (ridiculous). One effective possibility could be just adding a "Save notification" option in the palette, this option will create a simple plain/text entry on the journal with the message and any other relevant information. This option can be useful for other scenarios too. <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 8:14 AM, Esteban Bordon <<a href="mailto:ebordon@plan.ceibal.edu.uy">ebordon@plan.ceibal.edu.uy</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">4. Notification icons can still be seen at the notifications tray. (they could disappear also, after a extended period of time) I think it should stay there until the children see the message, but we have to be careful to avoid make visual spam. cheers, Esteban. <div class="gmail_quote">2010/11/15 Martin Abente <<a href="mailto:martin.abente.lahaye@gmail.com" target="_blank">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;"><div class="im">This is a "alpha" feature proposal, I would appreciate any comments that helps me to improve this feature. Please take a look at: <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Messages_Notification" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Messages_Notification</a> </div>_______________________________________________ Dextrose mailing list <a href="mailto:Dextrose@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">Dextrose@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/dextrose" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/dextrose</a> </blockquote></div> </blockquote></div>