Navigation Blocks
Navigation blocks seem to be the only way either to get to legacy menus. It’s also possible to start with an empty menu and create a new one. There are also a few built-in ones but they are extraordinarily unsatisfactory. (For example, “top level pages” are the most recently created pages; they are NOT the pages with no parents.)
This article, while strangely written to my mind, suggests saving your navigation menus as “template parts”. It seems to me that you might also be able to save them as reuseable blocks?
It seems very cumbersome to create a large new menu this way (basically, using list view and adding links and submenus in a navigation block) but I think that is the only option.
Another very peculiar thing is the administrative screen you get to when you click on “manage menus”. It seems downright worthless. It says there are some menus there (they are all named “navigation”) but you can’t edit them, quick edit them, view them… what kind of administrative screen is that?
Here are my current legacy menus:
Main Header menu
I changed some block options: type size, vertical orientation and hover style.
Site developer menu
This is what happens if you choose “always icon” and change background color. When you click on the icon you get the menu and it takes up the whole screen. Not very pretty. Turned off “allow to wrap” and stuck it in the first of two columns.
Quick links
Start with empty
This is extraordinarily inefficient! Also, I have yet to figure out where to name my menus and create a drop-down list of menus. Where oh where is the old menu stuff??