> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.webexp.dev/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.webexp.dev/exp98-shopify-theme/exp98/theme-settings/shell.md). # Shell Start button, taskbar, desktop icons, windows and the footer line. **Theme settings → Shell** ## Start button | Setting | Default | | --------------------------------- | ---------------- | | **Start button shows** | Logo and label | | **On phones, Start button shows** | Logo only | | **Logo** | the theme's mark | The choices for both are: Logo and label, Logo only, Menu icon and label, Menu icon only, Label only. The **label** itself is set on the [Taskbar](/exp98-shopify-theme/exp98/sections-and-features/taskbar.md) section. The logo shows at 16px. A simple mark reads; a wordmark won't. ## Desktop icon activation | Setting | | | -------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------- | | **Single click opens** (default) | One click opens an icon | | **Double click opens** | Authentic to 1998. Costs you customers who don't know to double-click | Phones and tablets always open with a single tap, and keyboard users always open in one step, whichever you choose. ## Taskbar * **Size** — Classic (28px, pixel-accurate) or Large (36px, the default). ## Desktop | Setting | Default | | | ------------------------------------- | ---------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | **Cart icon in the top-right corner** | on | Pinned to the same corner on every page, with the item count. Computers only — phones keep the cart in the taskbar. While it's on, a Cart shortcut in your desktop icons is hidden on computers, so there's only one cart | | **Cart icon** | the theme's cart | Your own icon — a bag, a box. Transparent PNG, 64 × 64 or larger, drawn simply; it shows at 48px | | **Cart label** | Cart | | | **Recycle Bin** | on | Under the cart in the top-right corner, computers only. See below | | **Offer system sounds** | on | The speaker in the tray. See below | | **Start-up sound when entering** | on | A dreamy start-up swell that opens up wide and bright, bells rising into it, as a shopper presses Enter on the enter page, even with the other sounds off | | **Your own start-up sound** | empty | Paste a link to your own MP3 to play it on Enter instead. See below | | **Icon size** | Large | Classic (32px) or Large (48px) | | **Icon columns on phones** | 5 | 4 or 5 across. 4 gives each label more room | | **New windows open** | Cascaded | Cascaded (each a step down and right), Scattered, or Stacked | ## Your own start-up sound 1. In Shopify admin, go to **Content → Files** and press **Upload files**. Pick your MP3 (keep it under 5 seconds and under 300 KB so it starts instantly). 2. When it finishes uploading, press the **link icon** next to it to copy its address. 3. Go to **Online Store → Themes → Customize → Theme settings → Shell** and paste it into **Your own start-up sound**. 4. Save. Your sound now plays on Enter instead of the built-in one. Clear the box to go back. **Start-up sound when entering** still has to be ticked. ## Opening… dialog On by default. The first time a shopper opens each window in a visit, a small box — *Opening SHOP.EXE…* with a blue progress bar — runs for a moment before the window appears, the beat a real machine took to load a program. It's once per window per visit, never for the window that opens by itself, and never for shoppers who've asked their device for less motion. | Setting | Default | | | --------------------------- | ------- | --------------------------------------------------- | | **Show an Opening… dialog** | on | | | **How long** | 0.3 s | 0.2 to 1.5 seconds, in tenths, so nobody waits long | ## Recycle Bin Whatever a shopper takes out of the cart lands in the Recycle Bin, and the bin's icon fills up — drag a row from the cart window onto the bin, or press **Remove**. Click the bin to open it: everything in it is listed with **Restore**, which puts it back in the cart, and **Empty Recycle Bin** clears it for good. It's kept on the shopper's own browser; nothing reaches your admin. ## System sounds A speaker in the taskbar's tray, struck through in red: sounds are always off until the shopper turns them on, and their choice is remembered. On phones the tray has no room for it, so it's **Sounds** in the Start menu instead, ticked while on. Once on, every mouse click clicks — a recorded mouse button. On top of that, the moments that mean something have their own sound: | When | Sound | | ------------------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Entering the store | A dreamy swell that opens up bright, with rising bells — plays even with sounds off, unless **Start-up sound when entering** is unticked | | Something goes into the cart | A two-note notify | | A cart goal is reached (free shipping unlocked) | A bright four-note chime | | A game is won | A short flourish | | An add is refused (sold out, a limit) | The bell | | Something goes in the Recycle Bin / it's emptied | Paper crumpling / a bigger crunch | | Sleep | A falling chord | | **Check out** | A modem dialling out | The mouse click is a real recording. The rest are drawn by the browser as they play, in the spirit of 98's. None of them are Microsoft's recordings, which can't be shipped in a theme. Untick **Offer system sounds** to take the speaker away. ## Footer line A small line of text just above the taskbar. * **Show a line above the taskbar** — on by default. * **Text** — `© [year] [shop]` by default. `[year]` and `[shop]` are filled in for you. ## Start menu * **Add "98" after the store name** — on by default. The Start menu's side strip reads like the original: your name in bold, 98 in plain.