In addition to the Main Menu, discussed in the section called The Main Menu, you can also add to the Panel "normal menus". Unlike the Main Menu, normal Menus only contain whatever Launchers and submenus you choose put in them - no default submenus, Run program, etc. as the Main Menu has. For example, you can add any submenu of your Favorites menu or the Program menu as a separate menu to the panel; to do so, bring up this submenu from the Main Menu, right click on the submenu title, and select add this menu to panel. To create a new Menu, use the Menu editor.
Figure 6. An Example Menu
The example above shows a menu titled My Favorites which includes three application launchers and one submenu titled Games.
To learn how you can add new menus to the Panel, see the section called Adding objects to the panel.
You can easily change the Menu title and the icon used by the Menu. To do so, click on the Menu button, right-click on the menu title (at the very top of the list, above all other items), and select Properties from the pop-up menu. This will bring up the Menu Properties Dialog, quite similar to the Launcher Properties Dialog.
To add a new item to the Menu, click on the Menu button, right-click on the Menu title, and select Add new item to this menu. This will bring up Create new launcher dialog, in which you can enter item name, command, and other information (see the section called Launchers for more information). To remove an item from the Menu, right-click on it and choose Remove this item.
Finally, a frequently asked question is "How I can change the font and the background used by the menus?" The answer is, it is determined by the current GTK Theme, which can be changed using GNOME Control Center, by selecting Main Menu->Settings->Desktop->Theme Selector.