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160. By Luke Yelavich on 2012-10-17

* New upstream release (LP: #1067565)
  - General
    + Fix for bug 675288 - Orca doesn't always announce selection changes
      in Nautilus 3.6's icon view
    + Fix for bug 680228 - In Thunderbird 14.0 e-mail address auto
      completion results are not spoken
    + Fix for bug 684838 - Orca should present the accessible name of
      sliders
    + Fix for bug 675656 - Mark Hungarian 8 dot computer braille for
      translation
  - New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
    + bg Bulgarian Alexander Shopov
    + uk Ukranian Daniel Korostil

159. By Luke Yelavich on 2012-09-06

* New upstream release
  - New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
    + de German Simon Bienlein
    + el Greek Tom Tryfonidis
    + id Indonesian Andika Triwidada
    = nb Norwegian bokmål Kjartan Maraas
    + pl Polish Piotr Drąg
    + ru Russian Yuri Myasoedov
    + ta Tamil Dr.T.Vasudevan

158. By Luke Yelavich on 2012-08-02

* Re-enable support for Braille:
  - Re-add liblouis and brltty python bindings to orca dependencies.
  - Add a patch to make sure Orca sends byte arrays to the brltty python
    bindings.

157. By Luke Yelavich <email address hidden> on 2012-06-27

* New upstream release, 3.7 series is python3 based.
  - General
    + Python 3 migration has been completed
    + Fix for bug 677748 - Launcher icon needs 256x256 variant
    + Fix for Orca not presenting the 'Command not found' label in the
      gnome-shell run dialog
    + Work around for Orca not presenting the gnome-shell run dialog text
      in braille
    + Handle text implementations which report a caret offset of -1 when
      at the end
    + Eliminate unneeded and/or problematic imports
    + Remove more old, no-longer-used/needed code
  - New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
    + el Greek Tom Tryfonidis
    + fr French Bruno Brouard
* debian/control:
  - Move dependencies to python3, except for Braille dependencies, Braille
    will be disabled until liblouis and brltty are updated for python3.
  - Drop python-xdg dependency, should have been done ages ago.
  - Drop wget recommends, again another one that stuck around when not
    needed.
* Remove old conflicts/replaces, no longer needed.

156. By Luke Yelavich on 2012-06-06

* New upstream release
  - For users:
    + Improve Orca's presentation of gnome-shell/clutter dialog boxes
    + Handle traceback seen with embedded object chars in Yelp
    + Fix a bug in the state change notifiers
    + Don't ignore MouseButtonEvent instances due to timestamp
    + Fix for Orca saying "Primary" for mnemonic Ctrl++
    + Fix for bug 659588, Orca presents Ctrl+Plus and Ctrl+Minus
      accelerators partially-translated
    + Fix for speech keybindings failing when no speech settings have
      been saved
    + Remove the now-redundant 'orca -q/--quit' and 'orca -f/--forcequit'
      (pkill works reliably)
    + Ensure we eliminate replaced Orca processes
    + Handle multiple and alternate installations better
    + Eliminate the Orca shell script and cause Orca to run as a single
      process rather than two
  - For translators (whom we love):
    + GNOME Goal: Remove markup in messages
    + Add translator notes; provide more detail for vague ones
    + Workaround for intltool not including translator notes for orca.in
    + Fix for bug 675522 - incorrect comment for translators
  - Other:
    + Much work towards the Python 3 migration
    + Fix for bug 658834 - Use GDbus via gobject-introspection instead
      dbus-python
    + Revert "Interim fix for bug 672242"
    + Fix for bug 669813 - Remove pyxdg dependency
    + Get rid of the forced-qui-prefs when there are no settings.
    + Continued general code cleanup
  - New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
    + cs Czech Marek Černocký
    + es Spanish Daniel Mustieles
    + fr French Bruno Brouard
    + gl Galician Fran Diéguez
    + ja Japanese Jiro Matsuzawa
    + sl Slovenian Matej Urbančič
* Dropped patches:
  - 01_add_ubiquity-script.patch - Don't think this ever really worked.
  - 03_orca_kill_speechd.patch: Orca no longer uses a shell script, and its
    better we fix the problem at the source, i.e making sure speechd shuts
    down if its not needed.
* 02_show_main_window.patch > 01_show_main_window.patch, its the only patch
  we carry now, also refresh it.
* debian/control:
  - Drop python-dbus build dependency.
  - Add gir1.2-glib-2.0 dependency.

155. By Luke Yelavich on 2012-05-24

* New upstream release
  - General
    + Prevent gnome-shell notifications from being double-presented
    + Try to handle metacity timeouts more gracefully
    + Fix for bug 674237 - More unicode errors found with hungarian locale
    + Fix for bug 674693 - Modifier keys pressed alone should interrupt
      speech
    + Prevent Orca from interrupting speech in Anaconda trees
  - New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
    + cs Czech Marek Černocký
    + gl Galician Fran Diéguez
    + nb Norwegian bokmål Kjartan Maraas
    + sl Slovenian Matej Urbančič
    + te Telugu Sasi Bhushan

154. By Luke Yelavich on 2012-04-26

* New upstream release (LP: #988685)
  - GNOME 3
    + Present the name change of the suspend/power off menu item
    + Prevent nameless panels from delaying presentation of Top Bar button
    + Prevent focused objects in gnome-shell dialogs from preempting
      presentation of the dialog itself
    + Fix for Empathy active descendant presentation getting incorrectly
      interrupted
    + Minor adjustments to get Orca working with Empathy 3.4
    + Fix for bug 672461 - Orca now presents the full file list when the
      file chooser is opened
  - Unity
    + Fix for bug 673397 - Using flat review while in Unity Greeter makes
      Orca stop presenting screen contents
    + Fix for bug 673157 - Unhandled exception when in Unity Greeter
    + Fix for bug 673648 - Orca does not present Unity 2d indicators
      correctly in braille
  - Qt
    + Fix for Orca incorrectly skipping certain menu item events in KMail
    + Fix for bug 673142 - Unhandled exceptions (GError: No such object
      path) when using Skype
  - WebKitGtk
    + Fix for bug 673540 - List and list item structural navigation
      sometimes fails
    + Prevent Orca from double-presenting focused links with structural
      navigation in lists
    + Fix for bug 672464 - Orca double presents headings which are links
    + Fix braille rolename presentation
    + Fix for bug 673757 - Pages with alt attribute present, but not
      actually set, results in traceback
    + Fix a UnicodeWarning
  - Gecko
    + Fix for bug 673715 - Orca double-echoes keys pressed in Thunderbird
      address fields
    + Fix for bug 673567 - List in Firefox preferences dialog not presented
  - LibreOffice
    + Fix for bug 672787 - Unhandled exceptions from dead accessibles in
      Calc
    + Fix for bug 673530 - Orca multi-presents the focused cell's contents
      when arrowing in Calc
    + Fix for bug 672953 - Orca is presenting extra "input line frame"
      announcements in LibreOffice Calc
  - Orca and AT-SPI
    + Handle the new AT-SPI2 timeout errors
    + Add additional debugging info to help track down hard-to-reproduce
      issues
    + Use os.makedirs instead of os.mkdir if the XDG data home directory
      doesn't exist
    + Disable braille monitor if the import fails
    + Ensure 'orca -t' works even without a Desktop
    + Fix for bug 673336 - Problems (re)binding commands with Caps_Lock
  - New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
    + ca Catalan Jordi Serratosa
    + ca Catalan (Valencian) Carles Ferrando
    + de German Christian Kirbach
    + hu Hungarian Attila Hammer, Gabor Kelemen
    + lt Lithuanian Aurimas Černius
* Dropped patches, applied upstream:
  - 04_Ensure-orca-t-works-even-without-a-Desktop.patch
  - 05_settings_manager-Create-the-XDG-data-home-directory-.patch
* debian/watch: Point to Orca 3.4 series.

153. By Luke Yelavich on 2012-03-28

* New upstream release
  - New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
    + it Italian Luca Ferretti
    + pt Portuguese Rui Batista
    + te Telugu Krishna Babu K
    + zh_CN Simplified Chinese YunQiang Su

152. By Luke Yelavich on 2012-03-20

* New upstream release
  - General
    + Fix for bug 672276 - Tracebacks seen when interacting with
      Thunderbird's message filter rules dialog
    + Fix for bug 672242 - Orca presents an extra panel on places&devices
      and documents search result
    + Sanity check that we have a desktop to get before we attempt to get
      its apps
    + Fix for bug 659839 - Gecko combobox selection is no longer presented
    + Do not treat "busy indicator" progress bars as progress bars with
      values
    + Handle errors seen when restarting gnome-shell
    + Handle GErrors which prevent Orca from speaking menu items in Skype
    + Attend to object:state-changed:expanded events for push buttons
  - New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
    + ca Catalan Gil Forcada
    + ca Catalan (Valencian) Carles Ferrando
    + en_GB British English Bruce Cowan
    + eu Basque Inaki Larranaga Murgoitio
    + fi Finnish Timo Jyrinki
    + gl Galician Fran Diéguez
    + hu Hungarian Attila Hammer
    + lv Latvian Rudolfs Mazurs
    + pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Antonio Fernandes C. Neto
    + sr Serbian Мирослав Николић
    + sr@latin Serbian Miroslav Nikolić
    + te Telugu Sasi bhushan Boddepalli
    + uk Ukranian Daniel Korostil

151. By Luke Yelavich on 2012-03-06

* New upstream release
  - General
    + Check for (and where appropriate present) expandable and expanded
      states for toggle buttons and push buttons
    + Present gnome-shell notifications (also requires fix for bug 648645)
    + Fix for bug 670547 - Module for notification messages should use
      SYSTEM_VOICE
    + Handle Earlybird (Thunderbird pre-release) as Thunderbird
    + Fix for bug 666424 - toolkits/gecko/script.py:updateBraille can
      cause traceback
    + Fix for several UnicodeEncodeError and UnicodeDecodeError bugs
    + Fix the presentation of mnemonics which are accented letters
    + Present the localized rolenames we get via pyatspi rather than use
      Orca's pre-pyatspi rolename code for non-abbreviated rolenames
    + Fix for bug 670596 - Please don't present entry roles as text roles
    + Remove the old settings migration code from orca.py
    + Fix for getListOfShortcuts() incorrectly eliminating commands
    + Add an orca-customizations.py option to override the disabled main
      window
    + Fix for Orca not using the specified debug-file when debug flag is
      not also provided
    + Fix man page errors
    + Avoid incorrectly detecting python modules which not installed
    + Fix for bug 670827 - Contraction Table: need translator comment
  - New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
    + be Belarusian Kasia Bondarava, Ihar Hrachyshka
    + bg Bulgarian Alexander Shopov
    + da Danish Kenneth Nielsen
    + fr French Bruno Brouard
    + gl Galician Fran Diéguez
    + pl Polish Piotr Drąg
    + ru Russian Yuri Myasoedov
    + sr Serbian Мирослав Николић
    + sr@latin Serbian Miroslav Nikolić
    + ta Tamil Dr.T.Vasudevan