well, you can do that with scripting right now and until it's added, if it is, that's how it'll have to be done
Im not bashing your idea, just stating an "in the meantime" way of doing it
Hixxy, I like your idea and suggested somethign like it myself not long ago - to be able to utilize the blank space on the treebar for the notify list as well as being able to dictate the width/height of each