On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 23:16, blind Pete <0123peter@gmail.com> wrote:

1a. Popup box (this sort of happens in KDE) or a "write" message to
the tty that says, "go read the logs".

The desktop notification is already there actually, since Mandriva 2009.1.

Tty notification was there since Mandrake era I think.