customizing gnome applet names and icons

["H. S." <greatexcalibur@yahoo.com>]

(not sure if my first post made it, apologies if this is a repition)

I wonder if on a given gnome system we can customize the icons that 
appear on the panels or task bars. Specifically, I want to change to 
name or icons or both of the volume controls. I have controls for PCM, 
speaker and headphones and currently all the icons and labels (names) of 
those icons are the same.

I am running Debian Sid kernel 2.6.7 and:
~# dpkg -l gnome-desktop* gnome-session* | grep '^ii'
ii  gnome-desktop- 2.6.1-2        Common files for GNOME 2 desktop apps
ii  gnome-session  2.6.2-6        The GNOME 2 Session Manager


Thanks,
->HS