design wise: I don't have the wallet running right now but I liked the previous one where it had no border around the qt.. it felt more modern and minimalistic - the trend right with all apps specially those from microsoft. Would love to see corporate looking color scheme with not so many warm colors. Corporate i mean in the sense of the banking niche formal design cues not their crooked ways of course.
Agreed on the IRC thing, I'd prefer the BCR app to be as lean as possible. If it got ditched would anyone miss it?
I added a border to the main window because I hated not having one - but I could make it a .conf option?