Murrine.

Murrine is an Italian word meaning the glass artworks done by Venicians glass blowers. Murrine Engine is a Gtk2 engine that will make your desktop look like a beautiful Murrina (which is the italian singular of Murrine).

In other words, a program that lets you theme (skin) your Ubuntu.

I did not encounter any problem when installing Murrine on my Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon. I am using the Olive theme seen on the screen capture. The following 4 steps are the procedure I went about installing Murrine.

1. Create a folder in your Home Folder that you name .themes (the dot is suppose to be infront of the name).i. Files with a dot infront of the name are invisible unless you choose for them to be visible through checking ‘Show hidden files’ located under ‘View’.
2. Download themes from this page, link: http://www.cimitan.com/pages/murrine/themes.php and extract them into the folder you just created.
3. Download the Murrine Configurator deb file on this link: http://murrine.netsons.org/files/murrine-configurator_3.deb and let it install.
4. Restart the computer.

Now your Murrine installation is found at System/Preferences/New Murrine Configurator.

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The following screen capture shows the path to Murrine and the Murrine Configurator. The themes I have placed in my .themes folder are visible in the list.