Some other related comments: #68 (comment)

I am not sure I recall the design decision that went into doing this as an extra popup dialog on top of yet another modal dialog.

The napari notification system would be a good option, if the napari plugin manager was a panel or tab inside the main windows. This is something a suggested a long time ago, since it was not favored at the time, and we continue being an extra dialog on top of the main app, I would suggest we just use the bottomg of the dialog for messaging, since that is close to the show status button where we display fine grained information about the processes.

I don't see an issue with the napari notification.
User installs plugin, let's say they don't notice anything, but then closes installer -- there's the notification. As long as it's persistent and doesn't auto-close anyways?

Edit: bah, show_warning does auto-hide eventually. <30 s.
@Czaki is there a way to persist until dismissed? different warning maybe? Am I missing something?

Looks like right now all things use 4000 ms.
I think warnings/errors persisting is reasonable? I'll make a napari PR and we can see what folks think.

Edit: PR to make warnings/errors persistent:
napari/napari#7114

I would actually like to see persistence in terms of having a history. I do not mind warnings hiding after a "reasonable" time (right now it feels too short BTW), if I have a history and I can go there and checked what happened with more detail

That would be nice I think, but but if the notification disappears before you know it was there -- because it was obscured by the plugin installer, then how would you know to check?

Good point!, I guess both things might be needed in the long run :) so that during the napari session, the user can check all the notifications that came about

I do like the idea of the "bell" icon and status indicator though!

Is there an issue on napari @psobolewskiPhD , maybe we could open one in order to make the notifications manager a bit more sophisticated :)

Gonzalo and I were talking about this and might make more sense to have a more useful "status bar" and rearrange some of the UI elements to make enough space for it. I'll rename this issue accordingly.