Feedback requested on 'task notifier' patch

On October 12th, Matt Helsley posted a patch to lse-tech as part of the
pnotify/task notifier discussion.

I'm finally looking at it this morning but I'd like to know if anybody
else has comments.  An archived copy of the posting is here:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=lse-tech&m=112915953709702&w=2

Comments on the patch itself should be posted to the lse-tech.  However,
I'm interested in what this patch might be lacking for current PAGG/pnotify
users.

I hope to have some comments of my own today.

Thank you.

Erik