You can access all desktop functions through menus. Your default panels contain menus, so you can use a combination of menus and panels to perform your tasks. The Menu Panel contains Applications and Actions menus. You can also add the Main Menu to your panels.

You can use the Applications menu and the Actions menu to access almost all of the standard applications, commands, and configuration options. You can also access the items in the Applications and Actions menus from the Main Menu.

To add a Main Menu to a panel, right-click on the panel then choose Add to Panel->Main Menu. The Main Menu is represented by a stylized footprint, as follows:

Click on the Main Menu button on a panel to open the Main Menu.

You can add as many additional menus as you want to any of your panels. To open a menu that you add to a panel, click on the menu icon on the panel. You can perform other actions on your menus, such as copy menu items to panels.