It's time to update the chat window

[Catwho]

I am considering creating a mockup UI with functionality identifiers which I can give to the community for feedback until we have something solid.

That would be very generous of you!

If you do undertake this, I'll pass along my real wish list for this feature:

- The ability to lock the window in place. I accidentally stretched it over my hot bars the other day in raiding and I was doing my rotation blind. (I can do my rotation blind, which is nice to know, but it was scary. I couldn't fix it until we wiped.)
- The ability to do extremely basic formatting. Italics, bold, underline, strikethrough. I'm not sure we need emojis, but basic rich text would be reeeeaaaallly helpful
- Quick filters within a channel - sometimes I want to focus on a conversation but I don't want to permanently hide all the other chat channels on that tab. I would like to temporarily hide the other chat channels and then unhide them when that conversation is done.
- Similarly, a temporary local mute for people. I don't want to blacklist them, but they're being particularly chatty and I'm trying to concentrate Right click, mute for 1 hour.
- Make the tabs a little bit bigger. The chat log isn't part of the standard HUD resize feature and the only way to increase the size is to increase the whole font.
- ALTERNATE TO TABS ENTIRELY: As a mentor, I have an icon for the Novice Network list. It would be nice for certain chat channels to straight up have an icon assigned to them itself of text. That way I wouldn't need to have a text tab for them. I could have a single icon assigned to, say, a cross world hunt linkshell tab, with the hunt symbol. (And these icons could be bigger.)
- Ability to lock a tab in place temporarily so I don't accidentally go to the wrong tab mid battle (this has happened)