I just found out that there's an open sourced replacement for the quake 3 user interface that greatly enchances the usability of the game menus and allows to have a better modelviewing and selecting, and also allows tweaking more options for the skirmish and hosting games wihout breaking compatibility.
http://uie.planetquake.gamespy.com/The developer released it for the public domain and I was thinking that it could be a great adition for openarena if it was integrated in the project.. what do you think?