Applets
Applets are small applications running inside of . Almost everything besides the application starter buttons are applets. They can be added from the context menu or from the submenu Configure Panel by choosing Add and the Applet. Every applet contains a small arrow in it's handle. Clicking it will bring up a menu which lets you move or remove it, set the Preferences, if there are any and set the preferences of .

The Taskbar Applet
The taskbar applet shows buttons for the running applications. The application, which has the focus, is shown as a pressed button. If an application is minimized, the title displayed in the taskbar will fade to grey.
If you click on the button of the active application, it will be minimized. This means also that if you click twice on an inactive application, it will also be minimized.
A click with the on a button will show the standard application menu. Only the entry To current desktop differs: if you have set the taskbar to show the applications of all desktops, you can move this app to the current desktop.
There is also a small icon on the left or top side of the taskbar, which opens a menu. This is called the windows list icon. The menu's first entry, Unclutter Windows, tries to move the windows on your active desktop in a way to see as many as possible. Cascade Windows puts all windows on the active desktop over each others, the most recently on top and the others sorted by the time they where last used.
Below those entries is a list of all currently running applications, grouped by the desktops on which they are running. Clicking on the name of a desktop will switch to that one, clicking an application will also activate it. You can specify the mouse behaviour. Please refer to Taskbar settings for more about that.

Configuring the Taskbar Applet
You can configure the taskbar by clicking the on the small move handle.
Please refer to The Taskbar Section for details about the preferences of the taskbar.

The Mini-Pager Applet
This little applet shows a preview of the desktops and lets you also choose by a click with the which desktop you want to use.
There is also a very useful context menu:
Preview 	 This option lets the mini pager appear as a tiny preview of the desktops with symbolic rectangles for the running applications.
Number 	 If this option is chosen, the pager will show the numbers of the desktops
Name 	 This will let the pager show the names of the desktops, which can be set in the preferences or from Control Center.
Enable Desktop Preview 	 If this option is checked, a small button will be shown which shows a bigger preview of the running desktops. If you click an application in that preview, it will be activated.
Preferences 	 Here you can set the number of desktops you want to have and the names of them.

The Clock Applet
As you might already guess, the clock applet is a small clock which resides in .
A click with the on the clock will show a small calendar. You can use the single arrows to switch the months or the double arrows for switching years. This won't have any effect of your date settings, it's just for your information.
There are some things you can do with the clock applet. This can be done from the context menu.

Type
There are four ways the clock can appear:
Plain 	 This lets the clock appear as a simple text that shows the time in plain text.
Digital 	 This lets the clock appear as a digital clock showing the time in the well known seven segment style.
Analog 	 If this is set, the clock will be displayed as an old styled analog clock.
This may only be useful if you set to normal or large size.
Fuzzy 	 This is a very unorthodox style of time display. Try it out, it is really funny!

Preferences
Here you can set some general preferences of the clock applet.
General 	 In the Clock Type settings you can choose between the clock styles like in the context menu.
The Date group lets you pick font and color of the date, which is shown when activated for the specific clock type.
The Plain Clock Tab 	 In the Options section you can check if you want to have the date and/or the seconds shown. In Colors you can choose if you want the common look or your own custom colors and font.
The Digital Clock Tab 	 In the Options section you can check if you want to have the date, the seconds and/or blinking dots shown. In Colors you can choose if you want the common LCD-Look or your own custom colors.
The Analog Clock Tab 	 In the Options section you can check if you want to have the date and/or seconds shown. In Colors you can choose if you want the common LCD-Look or your own custom colors. You can also set the level of antialiasing, which means that lines will get blurred a little bit to prevent steps in the drawing. High quality antialiasing may catch some system load on low-end systems. Draw Frame will display the clock a little bit sunken in the panel.
The Fuzzy Clock Tab 	 In the Options section you can check if you want to have the date shown. There is also a slider to set the Fuzziness. This cannot be described in the documents, just do your own experiments. In Colors you can choose the colors and the font of the fuzzy clock.

Adjust Date and Time
This option starts the Country & Language configuration module of the .
You will need the super user password for adjusting date and time.

Date and Time Format
This will open the Date and Time module of where you can set your formats. There aren't any special permissions needed for that.

Copy
If you need to paste the actual date and/or time in another application (⪚ in a text editor), you can copy it to the clipboard with this function. After selecting one of the available formats, the actual date and/or time is placed in the clipboard using the appropriate format.

The Quick Launcher Applet
This is a compressed application launcher. It is very useful especially if the panel is set to normal or large size. You can add applications by drag and drop or from the context menu. The context menu is also used to remove an application.

The System Tray Applet
The System Tray is used to dock some special applications like ⪚ or .

Lock/Logout Applet
This little applet contains two buttons. The luggage lock is used to lock the screen if you ever want to leave your box alone and don't want anybody to see it and the off switch to close your session.

The Application Launcher Applet
This applet provides a simple command line embedded in . Nothing more, nothing less.

The Runaway Process Catcher Applet
This applet shows a smiley which will get angry when any process catches up too much system resources. If an application uses too much, a messagebox will appear and ask you how to handle that application.
Clicking it with the will show a configuration dialog. Here you can set the Update interval, which is set in seconds, and the CPU load threshold. At the moment, there is no real advice for setting this up, you will have to do some experimenting. These settings will probably change in a future release. There is also a section Programs to ignore where you can add applications that use very much resources naturally, ⪚ compilers or 3D renderers.

Applet
This applet does exactly the same like the residing in the system tray. It has the advantage, that it consumes a little bit less system ressources, which only matters on really slow systems, but has the disadvantage, that it uses more space than in the system tray. You can read more about that in the manual for