After reading some of the other stuff people have suggested about offboard PDAs, multiple monitors, slave clients, etc. I thought this might be useful.

Add a "Don't grab mouse" option that prevents the game from grabbing your mouse and using it to control your ship while mouselook is off. A lot of us use joysticks and if we have VO in a window or on multiple displays, you have to open the console or PDA in order to get your cursor back in flight. Also, that lua error window is kind of a bitch to click on if it shows up in mid flight...

+1

This could also allow you to make the touch-to-select system mouse-friendly. And drazed could upgrade targetless to let us click on entries as well.

For the sake of completeness arf: you can also press 't' (or any chat key for that matter) to free up the mouse - in case you don't want to obscure your view.

Yes, I know i can do that (and I do)

+1