Appearance
Palette, shoppers' own colour schemes, and browser theme colour.
Theme settings → Appearance
Palette
Seven palettes. Each is a full skin, not a tint: it recolours the desktop, every window's chrome, the title bars, the buttons and the icon set together.
Classic (default)
Teal desktop, grey windows, navy title bars — Windows 98 as shipped
Midnight
Dark
Bubblegum
Pink
Terminal
Green on black
Sandstone
Warm
Rainy Day
Slate blue and grey
High Contrast
White on black, purple title bars
Let shoppers change the colour scheme
On by default. Adds Display to the Start menu, which opens Display Properties — 98's Appearance tab: a little picture of the desktop with an active and an inactive window, and a Scheme list (Windows Standard, Rainy Day, Desert, Midnight, Bubblegum, Terminal, High Contrast). Picking one repaints the whole store straight away. OK or Apply keeps it, on that shopper's browser only; Cancel puts back what was there. Everyone starts on the palette you chose above.
Mouse trails
Theme settings → Shell → Offer mouse trails (on by default) adds a Mouse trails tick box to Display Properties. Ticked, a tail of six ghost arrows follows the pointer, as 98's Mouse settings offered. It's off until the shopper ticks it, remembered on their browser, and only on computers: a finger has no pointer. Untick the theme setting and the box is gone.
Browser theme colour
Phones tint their browser's address bar to match the page. With no wallpaper set, that is this colour — teal by default. Once you set a wallpaper, the bar takes the palette's window grey instead, automatically, so it never clashes with your picture.
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