Additional Notification and Functionality Settings

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# Additional Notification and Functionality Settings

I propose adding a setting to disable notifications and toggle them with a hotkey.

Many notifications personally annoy me, some of which lead to my death and server-wide defeat (see example below). This includes screen flashes—I'd like to fully disable them for myself without affecting mods, since not all server admins are okay adding mods just so someone can turn off their own alerts.

1) Flashing alerts for lack of fuel or power. Add a setting to disable them with a hotkey to toggle on/off.

2) Player death location links in chat, accounting for surface. The issue is, if I'm in active defense against a massive biter swarm attacking from bottom-left, I'm throwing slowdown capsules and firing to kill. If someone dies right then, the whole game gets ruined because me and other defenders accidentally click the death link (while chucking capsules or grenades) and teleport to the map—then biters eat us, spawning more death links and risking the whole team getting teleported mid-biter feast.
This isn't just annoying—it causes defeat.
I propose a setting to disable all clickable links in chat (not just deaths)! You can end up in the wrong spot from blueprint previews causing lag, or players spamming map tags. Please add a client-side hotkey toggle for chat link functionality so I can re-enable it post-fight when it's safe to check.

3) Blinking research icon—I don't need it if there's a dedicated science guy. Even he might not want it sometimes since he knows what's up without the flash. Add a setting to disable this blinking (no hotkey needed).

4) Alert icons for attacks, destruction, missing items for construction, etc., over the player inventory bar—add a setting to disable them and a hotkey to toggle.

5) In addition to #4—add pinning for these icons so they don't push each other around and stay in the same spot regardless of how many there are.

6) Also, add a setting for hard-locking the chat window position globally—so it doesn't jitter from:
- Player mining progress bar
- Player shield bar
- Player HP bar
- Other bars
- Or those #4 alerts (which pop up/disappear and shove chat up/down)
Super annoying when mining stone and trying to read chat—it shakes.

7) Add a setting to "block player inventory auto-sort when it's open."
Often, I want to move a specific item to a chest, but the millisecond I click it, auto-sort kicks in (from robots delivering or crafting finishing) and I grab the wrong stack.
A new menu option to block sorting while inventory is open would be great—let it sort when closed.
Or if my understanding of the internal logic is off and this doesn't fit, here are simpler alternatives:
- (Add an inventory sort hotkey to game settings)
- (Block auto-sort only while holding Ctrl or Shift)