window manager theme -Human Murrine- is not installed

This is a bug for Intrepid Ibex, right? I can confirm this bug with Intrepid Ibex Alpha 5 with the lastest updates (9/12/08). What details should we give to troubleshoot this further?

yes this is intrepid ibex alpha 5; I just use live cd and i got this bug!

The same thing happened to me on both of my Intrepid systems, one of which was freshly installed from an earlier Intrepid alpha. I do have gtk2-engines-murrine installed:

ii gtk2-engines-murrine 0.53.1+svn20080529-0ubuntu3 cairo-based gtk+-2.0 theme engine

Ken says that fixed packages have already been prepared

This bug was fixed in the package gtk2-engines-murrine - 0.60.1

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gtk2-engines-murrine (0.60.1) intrepid; urgency=low

  [ Kenneth Wimer ]
  * Updating build depends to include intltool >= 0.37.1 , failed to build
    otherwise
  * Fixes window manager theme installation. (LP: #266954)

  [ Ted Gould ]
  * Upstream release

 -- Kenneth Wimer <email address hidden> Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:55:30 +0200

I take it back :-) Updating the murrine engine is another issue.

This happens because we changed the names of the themes and the corresponding gconf settings. The Human-Murrine window decoration no longer exists because it is now the Human window decoration. Not sure how to fix this. Note that it should only occur on Intrepid systems which were installed before the human-theme package was changed not on fresh installs or updates from Hardy

This is most likely caused by the old theme name being remembered by the user's gconf key. Assumedly you've opened the theme dialog at some point since Alpha 2 and experimented (or at least "clicked away") from the default theme.

This would remember your settings as "Custom" and thus the renaming of the theme would not be applied to your gconf settings.

(We really should spec out a method of applying updates to user's gconf keys)

Before opening the dialog, please try running:

gconftool-2 --unset /apps/metacity/general/theme

That will reset your theme choice to the default.

I can confirm that this bug is fixed in Intrepid beta. Human themes all work.

I don't understand - after I install my OSV theme, and my Sunday theme - when I select them it tells me the engines aren't installed - but they did work after the upgrade - before I started messing.

Is there any way to completely clean up and reinstall the themes without doing reinstallation?

I thought maybe move the theme folder contents to start clean (the problem started after installing one too many themes).

This is not simply a murrine issue. It appears that gtk+ engines are not recognised.
You can see here, the tabs are not changing as I select the theme.