1. In an information processing system having a presentation space upon which one or more windows reside, a method of presenting a change in status of an application having an application bar in hidden mode wherein a change in status would cause the application bar to change from hidden mode to a more fully visible mode wherein a user configured a profile for said application bar, said profile containing one or more tolerances for the status of said application bar such that said application bar only changed to a more fully visible mode when said one or more tolerances were exceeded.