I'm having this problem after upgrading from 8.04 to 8.10 same symptoms, no audio icon (and can't add it), re-installed compiz and gnome and still nothing, I get this "old-look" windows and that error message when opening the theme settings (and even if I change them, the colors change a bit, but not the theme or icons).
I tried with safe gnome, same problem. I did had some trouble in the upgrading process, I was using "half- intrepid" for a while, and this happened when today I installed everything it asked me to in the update manager :) -- Unable to start the settings manager 'gnome-settings-daemon'. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/148291 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs