I was typing an answer to the dockscreens tabs topic made by Betel, when I got some ideas with improvement to the HUD:
It would be nice to have a different system for messagaes in space, rather then the actual 3-4 lines of text.
My idea:
A transparent window popping up could be cool, and many simple dockscreen texts could be moved to the new windows, like loot and jettison for example. Mouse could be use to interact with these windows, leaving the keyboard full control of the ship.
Why do I want this? To give simple interaction to the space messages, even with the possibility to add images.
I agree that this is a major changement and it will take a long time to code, but could be integrated with a new comm system (that some people asked) and the Domina powers window.