Allegedly, on or about 06 January 2014, Bob Marcan sent:
And moving notifications to Gnome? Does everyone use Gnome? Should i sit all the time behind the monitor? I don't.
I think emailing this info is the best first default action. The system administrator may not be the person logged in at the moment some desktop alert pops up. The sysadmin mayn't even use that PC, they may be managing a whole office of PCs from one desk.
The root email can be delivered to anywhere that's appropriate. Leave desktop alerts to things that are (or should be) under the control of the current user, pertaining to their own settings, not the system.