Thanks for your reply.
I made a suggestion on the Factorio forums: https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?p=630726
Although the current way is a fast improvement, that additional click is driving me nuts. Most of the times I want to know where I get attacked.
So i have to click, and then hover above the messages to see where I need to attend to for diplomacy talks.
It would be so much better if we could just hover directly, the space to hover is even bigger, compared to the box i need to click first.