well, drop down menus for maps, tilesets or stuff in the options menu would be quite nice. just have a look how much nicer gaes menus look
I did have a look, and they're nice indeed. I'm not saying that your menu proposal is a bad idea, by the way! softcoder says himself that he wants to migrate to an GUI library at some point.
But I'm not part of the MegaGlest team, just a contributor, and I don't have enough time to contribute completely new menus, so I'm simply proposing simple fixes to the current issues, since I think it's a more efficient way to go forward. I'll be happy to see this code ditched when someone contributes a better system.