Totally agree with this. Sometimes it's a bit too much.
It would be nice to have 2 distinct "toggable" windows: one for chat and one for game info like storms, prospecting, etc.
The "toggable" could have 3 states:
off
on (like it is now)
notify (only a line or an icon).
Of course it's just an idea and I have no clue of how hard would be to implement it