I was expecting to see that, I ended up looking up some old LiteStep themes [1][2] for my fix
At the end, I had really beautiful (to my eyes, back then) and very functional desktop, but something went wrong when I made backup before installing SuSE Linux 7.0, so months of vigorous customizing were lost. :-(
But it was fun while it lasted. There were a number of alternative desktop shells in the Windows 95/98 era.