Just to clarify, this feature is not intended to replace the log. (apparently some people got the wrong idea) It is needed in many scenarios, as a general mechanism to communicate important events to the user, that until now (and already) we have been re-inventing the wheel every time we wanted to show a message abusing from Alerts here and there. (which, in my opinion is way more interruptive). Saludos :) <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Martin Langhoff <<a href="mailto:martin.langhoff@gmail.com">martin.langhoff@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 2:07 AM, Martin Abente <div class="im"><<a href="mailto:martin.abente.lahaye@gmail.com">martin.abente.lahaye@gmail.com</a>> wrote: </div><div class="im">> * Why the user should start an activity to know what is happening? </div>Why/when does the user want to know "what's happening"? Users are busy doing something interesting... We should interrupt/hassle the user never. Or extremely seldom. m -- <a href="mailto:martin.langhoff@gmail.com">martin.langhoff@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:martin@laptop.org">martin@laptop.org</a> -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff</a> </blockquote></div>