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##                  GNOME Sound Monitor applet                   ##
##                           1.99.0          (February 15, 2003) ##
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##               Copyright (C) 2003 by John Ellis.               ##
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##                      Use at your own risk!                    ##
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##  This software released under the GNU General Public License. ##
##       Please read the COPYING file for more information.      ##
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Author: John Ellis <johne@bellatlantic.net>
e-mail: gqview@users.sourceforge.net
homepage: gqapplets.sourceforge.net

BETA release. last stable release was 1.9.1 (for gnome 1.4)

Sound Monitor is a GNOME panel applet, it displays the current Volume
output of the Esound daemon, also, optionally shows the Esound
status: Off(error), Standby, Ready.
The esound server's information can also be displayed(streams, sample info).
Panning (left - right) can also be adjusted for streams and samples.

A few sample skins (around 20) are included / installed with the applet.

Requirements:
  - GNOME 2 (http://www.gnome.org)
  - Esound (included with most gnome installs)

Changes in this release:

  + Port to GNOME 2
  + Added keyboard applet sizing support
  - Fixes plus improvements to the skin editor.

Notes:

  ! The applet display will be incorrect (corrupt) when using themes that
    contain transparency in combination with a transparent or image panel
    background. It appears to be a panel bug.

  - Older themes (for version 1.4.x and below) are not compatible with
    newer releases (1.9.0 and newer).

  - The binary is now named sound_monitor2_applet, the theme directory
    also reflects this change (/usr/share/sound-monitor2). The purpose is
    to avoid conflicts when installing beside a pre-1.9 release.

Installation:
  basically make ; make install should do it.

  The applet can then be run by selecting:
   'Panel'->'Add applet'->'Multimedia'->'Sound Monitor'

Additional themes go into (gnome-prefix)/share/sound-monitor2
To make your own theme, see the SKIN-SPECS file.

Keyboard support:

  An applet of this type does not really need to have keyboard shortcuts. But
  for themes that are resizable (they have a button that can be dragged to
  resize the applet), when the size button has focus the shift+arrow keys will
  resize the applet, shift+home will reset the applet theme to it's default
  size.