You can use Tk::Compound with some success, to make fancier menus.

Here is an example discussed before. Just premake images for your menus. Gtk2 and Wx, etc have better control over menus if you really need more flexibility.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use Tk;
use Tk::PNG;
require Tk::Compound;


my $maindlg = MainWindow->new();

my $bunny = $maindlg->Photo(-data => 
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my $dummy_frame = $maindlg->Frame
      ->pack( -side => 'top', -anchor => 'n', -fill => 'x' );
    Create_Menubar($dummy_frame);

my $menureport;

my @standard_pack  = (-side => 'top', -fill =>'x', -expand =>1);

my $frame_text = $maindlg->Frame(-borderwidth=>3,
            -relief=>'groove')->pack(@standard_pack);

my $txtbox  = $frame_text->Scrolled("Text",
                                    -scrollbars => "osoe",
                                    -width =>35,
                                    -height =>6,
                                    -wrap =>'word',
                                    -font=>"fixed",
                                    -selectbackground => "yellow",
                                )->pack(@standard_pack);
MainLoop;

sub Create_Menubar{
    my $frame = shift;
    my $mf = $frame->Frame->pack( -side => 'left', -anchor => 'w', -
padx => 10 );
    $maindlg->bind( $mf, '<Leave>', [\&Leave,$mf] );

    sub Leave {
        my $mf = shift;
        my @state = $mf->packSlaves();
        foreach (@state) {
            if ( $_->cget('-state') eq 'active' ) {
                $_->Leave();
            }
        }
    }

    my $compound_image = $frame->Compound(-relief =>'raised');
    
    $compound_image->Image(-image => $bunny );
    
    $compound_image->Text(-text => "Menu");

    $menureport = $mf->Menubutton( -image => $compound_image, 
      -tearoff=> 0)->pack( -side => 'left' ); ##Works Fine
    
    my @tmp_array;
    push @tmp_array, ['command'=>"SubMenu 1  Cntrl V" ]; 
    push @tmp_array, ['command'=>"SubMenu 2"];
    push @tmp_array, ['command'=>"SubMenu 3"];

    $menureport->menu()->cascade(-image => $compound_image,-menuitems=
+> \@tmp_array );
    $menureport->menu()->cascade(-label => "Menu 2",-menuitems =>\@tmp
+_array );
}
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