A valid concern, and in fact I'm (still) not so happy with the current look
of notifications, they
are generally too large for so few info. The idea for "progress"
notifications is that they could
be used for Tracker file copy operations and web browser downloads (as is
done on Android) but for
this we need them to be less invasive.
A special "progress" status notification could be sent directly to the
notification shelf I was
working on. It would be out of the way until the shelf is unhidden by the
user. There could be one
regular notification at the start ("Package downloads commencing") and one
at the completion or on
error.
https://www.freelists.org/post/haiku-development/Testers-needed-for-updated-notification-server