Fix Menu Management Metaboxes by making them Hierarchical & Ordered

[binarybit]

Although the (now default) menu management functions have been built into the admin area we absolutely NEED a correctly sort the menu items within the metaboxes.

I am surprised this issue has not been addressed yet so what I am proposing is the following:

Whenever a metabox is displayed on the menu management page the items within this metabox should be sorted by their default Wordpress sort order so their order shows up exactly like they do within the admin post list pages.

For hierarchical pages the menu items should be presented in a hierarchical type view (just like a hierarchical categories/terms).

Currently the tab on top shows "most used" but I feel what I mentioned above is far more logical as the default and the user should be able to select from "most used" and possibly even "alphabetically".

Feedback? Votes on this?

[nacin]

This is a duplicate of two or three other tickets.

Part of the problem is scaling. We can't show potentially thousands of categories or pages by default. Hence most used is the default.

[hakre]

Replying to nacin:

Can you please give reference of which tickets this is a dupe before closing it? Otherwise it's not clear to which other ticket(s) you are referring to.

Probable duplicate of: #14660

Probably related to: #14180, #13329, #13217, #11817