Initiating Dia - No Palette

[John Deakin <john humanaspects co uk>]

I am running Dia 0.97.1 on Ubuntu 11.10. When I start Dia from the
Ubuntu Dash it comes up without the shape specific palette, only the
simple shapes are shown. If I invoke Dia using "dia --integrated" in a
terminal the palette becomes available but I get the following messages
in the terminal window:

"(dia:2124): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in
module_path: "pixmap",

** (dia:2124): WARNING **: Cannot open icon file
/home/john/.dia/shapes/gradient/white_gray_horzontal.png for object type
'Gradient - White-Gray (horizontal)'.

** (dia:2124): WARNING **: Shape icon
'/home/john/.dia/shapes/Optics/dfb_laser.png' size wrong, cropped.

** (dia:2124): WARNING **: Shape icon
'/home/john/.dia/shapes/Optics/atten.png' size wrong, cropped.

** (dia:2124): WARNING **: Shape icon
'/home/john/.dia/shapes/Optics/dfb_laser.png' size wrong, cropped.

** (dia:2124): WARNING **: Shape icon
'/home/john/.dia/shapes/Optics/atten.png' size wrong, cropped.
sys:1: GtkWarning: IA__gdk_window_get_screen: assertion `GDK_IS_WINDOW
(window)' failed
sys:1: GtkWarning: IA__gtk_drag_set_icon_pixmap: assertion `!mask ||
gdk_window_get_screen (mask) == screen' failed

Have you any idea what is going on?

-- 
regards,
John
01367 820542