It sounds, to me, like this is a problem with GTK 1.x-based applications; Audacity, Ardour, XMMS, and NeroLinux all use the old 1.x series of GTK, to the best of my knowledge. Let's re-assign it to the gtk+1.2 package to see if we can find someone with some insight into the problem.
** Changed in: audacity (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: audacity => gtk+1.2 -- All UI text missing https://launchpad.net/bugs/72228 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs