The default chat a mess, as everything from /say /zone /guild /whisper etc. is thrown into a single chat window and more often than not an incoming whisper is overlooked.
What I'd like to see is something similar to Lotro which I consider to be a good default solution for whispers:
- A new chat-tab which only handles whispers
- An incoming whisper will create a new "chat room" with a label/button containing the name of the sender
- Every further communication over whispers with a particular sender is only happening in its "chat room"
- New/unread whispers will be displayed by a notification icon on the chat tab + on the respective "chat room"(as seen above on the Combat-Tab)
- A sound can be activated to be played each time upon receiving a new whisper
- The "chat room" can be closed, but each new incoming whisper of the same sender will create it again
- Each whisper from a different sender will create a new "chat room"
- Switching to another "chat room" simply by clicking on it's label/button
- Optionally: chat history