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##                GNOME Sound Monitor applet 1.9.0 (Feb 25, 2002)##
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##      Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 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

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 version 1.4.0 or higher. (http://www.gnome.org)
  - Esound version 0.2.13 or higher. (included with gnome)

Notes for this release:

  + Switched to SLIK skin interface, same as used in GQmpeg.
  + Added spectrum analyzer features.
  + Improved all other widget types (*).
  + Added latency adjustment, default of -1 is auto-detect.
  + Added skin editor. (*)
  - Now supports a grab handle for interactive sizing on the panel. (*)

  + Added the following themes:
     bubble-scope
     bubble-scope-blue
     bubble-scope-dark
     bubble-spectrum-blue
     bubble-spectrum-dark
     bubble-volume
     lollipop-spectrum
     lollipop-volume
     spectra-clear

 (*) Feature benefit of SLIK.

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-monitor
To make your own theme, see the SKIN-SPECS file.

