Sounds and ESD volume

[Matt Martin <mmartin Calvin SFC Lehigh Edu>]

Wow, the best way to appreciate the progress GNOME is making is to 
step away for a few weeks and then re-sync.  Lots of annoying  little 
details are fixed up. Great Work!

Anyway, I have 3 thoughts on sound to float out there

1)  More of a bug: Event sound seems to turn itself off very often
	between sessions.  Is this a known phenomenon ?

2) It would be nice to set a default volume level for the events,
	at least globally.  The issue here is that when I have the
	system volume cranked listening to x11amp or similar, pulling
	down a menu is loud enough to kill my next-door neighbor. 
	ESD alread has capability to set both stream and sample
	volumes (and panning); samples can even be set ahead of
	time as I understand it.

3) Along those lines, has anybody considered building an ESD mixer
	program to allow stream volumes to be set from a central
	place?  There would be some issues to deal with (transient
	streams appearing and disappearing, for instance) but it 
	seems to me that it could add some much-needed functionality.


Just some thoughts, wish I had more time for code right now.
 Matt Martin
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