I think it's fine the way it is TBH. I mean you can edit so much as it is, the default is the way Khaled likes it (I presume) and so, by default, surely his view should take precedence?
You can change the buttons and pretty much the whole look, there's not a huge amount you can't change..it's impossible to cater for everyone unfortunately, and *IMO* it's fine the way it is.
Just on the theme of...themes (heh) there are some colour themes in the colour dialog (
ALT+K) with some default themes and the ability to add new ones
With a stretch of my mind I can see why people (constantly) want to change everything about mIRC and perhaps you should be able to do so...we'll see I guess!
Regards,