Putting this here: I've added the ability to select items in dropdown menus by typing stuff with the keyboard (open the map menu, type "lorr", it gives you Lorraine plains"). I feel like it'd be nice to have, I'll post a patch when I get back home.
I'm glad to see an artist looking at this again. Your layout looks really nice. I just used what I had available to make the existing theme. Many of the gold pieces are just the old bronze ones that I removed some of the red from. I wouldn't mind you replacing all the theme stuff I added, lol. I look forward to what you come up with. I don't know if I'll have time to implement it though. I'm sure someone will. (One small request: I'd like the progress bars to revert back to flat ends. I think I came up the idea for the rounded ones and hacked it in. I've regretted it since then and it's never quite worked the way I wanted.)