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[David Hamm <davidthamm@xxxxxxxxx>]

I was serious when I said the design teams should work together.

"I think something as intrusive as popups are only acceptable for
urgent things like disk running out of space."

So your telling me that when an indicator that you have a message shows up
in the top right of the screen this presents absolutely no distraction to
you? The very fact that there is any indication of a received message will
cause some form of disruption. Further more Of course i'm not talking about
pop-ups and i wish you didn't associate the idea with such. Presenting a
small box in the lower right like in gshell allows the user to take
advantage of the minor interruption of provide a quick reply. Further more,
if you are so busy with the task at had I would assume your status is set at
busy so there is no indication, sending the message to the tray or that
maybe that person shouldn't be in your contact list. I would assume
that friends, or the people in your contact list, the people sending you a
message, are more important then any current task at hand.

But of course I could agree with you, disk space is much much more important
then your contacts.