Without gst-plugins-alsa xfce4-volumed just doesn't do anything on a volume-change. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Uninstall every other gstreamer application 2. emerge xfce4-volumed 3. start xfce4-volumed Actual Results: The program doesn't even fail but instead stays completely inactive. Expected Results: Get notified on volume changes.
+ 12 May 2010; Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org> + xfce4-volumed-0.1.8.ebuild: + Missing media-plugins/gst-plugins-meta (which in turn will pull in + gst-plugins-alsa) RDEPEND wrt #317285 by Benedikt Sauer.