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Message: [QUOTE="Series Expansion, post: 3863181"] Tray notifications or a status bar can be used in GUIs to achieve the same effect. GUIs present the application designer with an additional option, though, which is to pop up urgent information, or almost- certainly-desired information, right near where the user's eyes are probably looking. It won't sometimes accidentally go unnoticed for hours. As with any feature, overuse or misuse of it can irritate and detract from usability. A further thing that software designed to run (only) on modern hardware can use is sound, for example a gentle and nonobtrusive chime to announce possibly-useful but non-urgent events (e.g. you have mail, or a download has finished, or there's a tip displayed in the status area), versus a loud buzz to warn of imminent danger (e.g. a delete is too large to undo, are you sure?). [/QUOTE]