Personally I can see a really good point for this. Every day I try and do a full sweep of aiding my guild mates and friends and visiting their taverns- it is SO easy and quick when it comes to the aiding, you can go straight through the list and just take a note of the aid notifications if you so wish as they appear and fade in the background. But visiting taverns is far more involved. Loading the extra mini-screen, the graphic of the pulled out chair, the bother of having accessed the tavern through the events list in the town hall and not realising that you're not actually able to visit again yet due to timing or available seats- and yet you still have to wait for the graphic to load and then click out/away from it. Now, I don't particularilly mind the tavern graphics, I think they are well conceived... but certainly it is a lot more time consuming and involved to visit taverns than to aid. I personally am fine with popups in the background which fade after a few seconds- I don't find them distracting and I can chose whether or not to put any real attention there. LAB21's suggestion I think is a valid one- it would make tavern visits quick and easy with less screen-loading & exiting time.