Droping on a planet

[Crono]

when you are starting to deploy on a planet you see what faction is on the planet, but when you deploy on a planet befor others you don't know till you run in to some one(so far it has not happen to me yet XD)
Is there a way you can make it on the planet chat or in the log saying some one had deploy on the planet that way you can be on a look out.

One thing i found is if you close the chat window it will not come back up till the next turn.
can you make it a link on the right side for opening the chat window or better yet
make the chat window its own window.
that way when the turn ends that way your text for what you was going to will not be deleted(have to type fast in 1min on the mineing planets and try to run your units at the same time)