> If you right klick the K-Meue there is an entry "Switch to Kickoff Menue
> Style" - there you are, you can switch between the two styles (Classical
> and Kickoff) easily. Even if I might not use it in future I've learned from
> this thread that it's there and I'm glad about it.
>
> Gerhard

Now I have tried it, too :-)

It's kind of KDE4 experience: slow. 
Although I did not find it buggy, it's quite useless to me.

Nik