KMenu
I found an article describing how to tweak how Kicker looks. I wrote about this before but this site includes a few tips the KDE wiki article does not include.
Interestingly you can add some text to your KMenu button:
[KMenu] ShowText=true Text=Some Text

That looks hideous, so I don't use it. But you can. I do like making my menu icons bigger, and removing the section titles though. Combined with the Domino KDE theme to give it nice rounded edges and some Buuf icons, I think it looks nice:


What color scheme are you using on that screenshot?
Some variation of the one here: http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/GreyforDomino?content=52307