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Bug#704934: marked as done (unblock: gnome-session/3.4.2.1-4 gdm3/3.4.1-8)

Your message dated Thu, 18 Apr 2013 06:30:41 +0100
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regarding unblock: gnome-session/3.4.2.1-4 gdm3/3.4.1-8
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Package: release.debian.org
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Hi,
The screen reader is currently not working in GDM, this is a regression from squeeze. I've looked into the problem (bug #689559) and have fixed it. The problem is that since around 3.0, gdm doesn't support a directory to place .desktop files that are autostarted in the gdm session. My patches fix this:
- by adding support to gnome-session (new --start option) so that we can specify a directory (/usr/share/gdm/greeter/autostart/) that will contain .desktop files to be started in the gdm session (the current --autostart option overrides session loading so it's not an option, and I didn't want to modify its behaviour in case something else uses it).
- by making gdm specify that directory so that .desktop files in it are started, and adding a file for orca (if orca is not installed nothing will happen and gdm has traditionally shipped that file for orca, that's why I added it to gdm and not to orca)
- by adding a menu entry to the panel in the gdm greeter so that one can start/stop the screen reader.
One issue is that the new menu entry in gdm has a translatable string ("Screen Reader"). Since gdm has that string, I could copy the translations from it.
I understand that it's quite late in the freeze, but since a11y is very important, I think this needs to be fixed. I wouldn't mind postponing it till the release is done and including this in a point release if needed. WDYT? 

Thanks,
Emilio

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On Thu, 2013-04-18 at 00:06 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> from a little testing locally, it looks like an improvement over the
> current situation in wheezy, and I'd be happy to see those updates in
> wheezy (for d-i wheezy rc2 if feasible/reasonable).
> 
> As mentioned on IRC, I wouldn't want to leave people with no a11y at
> all for a new stable release. :(
> 
> Especially since work has finally landed, and since the diffs look
> reasonable.

Yep. Unblocked and aged both; thanks for the feedback.

Regards,

Adam

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