Throw in #WindowBlinds to skin your actual window chrome, you could customize pretty much everything.

Want an app selector in that corner? boom. Want a right click floating start menu? yep. Was also the first shell for windows to offer multiple desktop support if i recall.

Sadly, #litestep is now defunct, but just happily learned that #blackbox lives on as #xoblite - gonna give that a whirl when I get home tonite.

https://xoblite.net/