How about showing a special notification area, like in FF3? http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3144/2887187314_312df9ddaf_o.png Also, a message to the notification daemon could be sent. I'm totally against new dialogs, especially when it comes to notifying the user of events. There are better, less obtrusive and more standard ways to do that. > As to adding the info to the list, I don't know - wouldn't that make > some users unaware that some error happened, because it only appear in > the downloads tab? From what I learned from the User Test in May this > year, some users even had problems realizing that there was a > "Downloads" tab there, because theoretically, you don't have to know > about it right now - you can show the progress in the episode dialog > window, too.