I'd like to request adding checkbox functionality to the Kendo UI Menu's api similar to the Kendo UI TreeView.  

I'd like to request the ability to add a public method with the functionality to focus on a specific menu item for navigation purposes.  

Menu - set item highlighted when clicked 
Example: If I click HOME I want home remain highlighted, if I click another item set this item highlighted

its not very easy and transparent to find out what menu item was clicked and what function is to be executed. A simple callback reference would be most convenient. Or at least a simple value to compare. Other advantage is that in case of international translations the code is not impacted

Have the menu act the same as a DropDown with detached Popup which lives in the document.body so it can expand over splitters and other things that hide the menu expansion.