Gnome Notifications

[Lukas Sabota]

  First off, I'd like to say that I am VERY pleased with the GNOME
notifications in Dapper.  They are very professional looking, and fit
with your current theme.  Awesome. 
  But, I have yet to find an easy way to display notifications.  It
would be so useful to have a program that worked something like this:

gnome-msg -i <icon pathname> <message Text>

It's very nice that many gnome applications are somewhat easily bash
scriptable (Gaim, Rhythmbox, and others).  To compliment these scripts,
it would be nice to be able to comminicate messages to the user.
  Look at this for example:  Let's say I have a backup program that is
run every day at 7pm.  I want to communicate whether it failed or worked
to the user.  Currently, the best solution is just to leave a log file
and hope the user checks it.  If there was a gnome-msg program or
similar, the user could easily be notified.
  Does such a program exist?  Does anyone else agree that it would be
very beneficial for the GNOME desktop?  I don't think this would be very
difficult to implement.  I would be willing to work on it if some people
could give me some direction.

God Bless,
Lukas