this makes it seem like we have more elements then we really do! maybe we could make a button that makes this menu (like ace said) but in a new window so it would be efficient and classic!
EDIT: and the menu we have now would disapear when we have it on this new mode!
electronics should be split into Electricity and Electronics
Here here!
also perhaps a "thermal" category (heat, cool, heat switch [cold flame and plasma? {plasma isn't really a gas, its a state of its own and would fit into the thermal category pretty well}]), a "spatial" category (portals, black & white holes, singularity, assorted clones, warp, void) and a "light" category (glass, photons, filter, [liquid crystal?])
Love it... much more efficient and easier to find a particle (why not make a setting button that can switch back to the old style and switch back to the new style...)