This can be used to store informational messages, errors or warnings which can later be shown to the user in gst-inspect-1.0, which can be useful for plugins that expose elements dynamically based on external libraries or hardware capabilities.
Status messages can then provide an indication as to why a plugin doesn't have any elements listed, for example, or that the underlying library is a build with missing features.
FIXME
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squash -
remove coreelements use of API -
use API in more plugins (maybe others want to do that @seungha.yang @vjaquez to see how/if it works for them)
Screenshot
(Exact layout/placing of this can be bikeshedded later)