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gcompris 4.0

Avui fem el llançament del GCompris versió 4.0.

Aquesta versió afegeix les traduccions de tres idiomes més: búlgar, gallec i suahili.

Conté 190 activitats, incloent-hi 8 de noves:

  • «Classes gramaticals» és una activitat per a aprendre a identificar les classes gramaticals de paraules, una classe a la vegada.
  • «Anàlisi gramatical» és similar a l'anterior, però amb diverses classes demanades per a cada frase.
  • «Calcudoku» és un joc d'aritmètica on l'objectiu és omplir una quadrícula amb números segons regles específiques.
  • Amb «Endevina 24», utilitzant els 4 números donats i els operadors, trobeu el número 24!
  • A «Fris», reproduïu i completeu els diferents frisos.
  • «Llegeix una línia graduada» és una activitat on cal trobar un valor representat en una línia graduada.
  • A «Usa una línia graduada», situeu el valor indicat en una línia graduada.
  • A «Nombres adjacents», apreneu quins nombres venen abans o després de la seqüència indicada.

Conté correccions d'errors i millores gràfiques en diverses activitats.

Amb aquesta versió s'ha aconseguit una fita important: després de gairebé 9 anys de treball, s'ha completat la tasca de reelaborar tots els gràfics per a ajustar-los a les directrius!

Està traduït completament als idiomes següents:

  • Àrab
  • Búlgar
  • Bretó
  • Català
  • Català (Valencià)
  • Grec
  • Espanyol
  • Basc
  • Francès
  • Gallec
  • Croat
  • Hongarès
  • Italià
  • Lituà
  • Malaiàlam
  • Neerlandès
  • Polonès
  • Portuguès brasiler
  • Romanès
  • Eslovè
  • Turc
  • Ucraïnès

També està traduït parcialment als idiomes següents:

  • Àzeri (97%)
  • Bielorús (86%)
  • Txec (94%)
  • Alemany (95%)
  • Anglès RU (95%)
  • Esperanto (99%)
  • Estonià (95%)
  • Finès (94%)
  • Hebreu (95%)
  • Indonesi (95%)
  • Macedoni (90%)
  • Noruec nynorsk (95%)
  • Portuguès (95%)
  • Rus (95%)
  • Eslovac (83%)
  • Albanès (99%)
  • Suec (95%)
  • Suahili (99%)
  • Xinès tradicional (95%)

Trobareu els paquets d'aquesta nova versió per a GNU/Linux, Windows, Android, Raspberry Pi i macOS a la pàgina de baixades. Aquesta actualització també estarà disponible aviat a la botiga Android Play, el repositori de F-Droid i a la botiga de Windows.

Gràcies a tots,
Timothée i Johnny

gcompris 3.3

Avui fem el llançament del GCompris versió 3.3.

Aquesta versió afegeix les traduccions de dos idiomes més: l'àrab i l'esperanto.

Conté correccions d'errors en diverses activitats com «Codificació de camí», «Lletra en una paraula», «Agafar la bola» i «Composició per a piano».

S'han fet algunes millores en la gestió del teclat (dreceres, focus...) en diverses activitats.

També conté gràfics nous i millores a «Caçador de fotografies».

Està traduït completament als idiomes següents:

  • Àrab
  • Àzeri
  • Bretó
  • Català
  • Català (Valencià)
  • Grec
  • Anglès RU
  • Espanyol
  • Basc
  • Francès
  • Croat
  • Indonesi
  • Italià
  • Lituà
  • Malaiàlam
  • Neerlandès
  • Noruec nynorsk
  • Polonès
  • Portuguès
  • Portuguès brasiler
  • Romanès
  • Eslovè
  • Turc
  • Ucraïnès

També està traduït parcialment als idiomes següents:

  • Bielorús (79%)
  • Txec (88%)
  • Alemany (99%)
  • Esperanto (99%)
  • Estonià (99%)
  • Finès (98%)
  • Hebreu (99%)
  • Hongarès (99%)
  • Macedoni (94%)
  • Rus (99%)
  • Eslovac (87%)
  • Albanès (99%)
  • Suec (98%)
  • Xinès tradicional (99%)

Trobareu els paquets d'aquesta nova versió per a GNU/Linux, Windows, Raspberry Pi i macOS a la pàgina de baixades. Aquesta actualització estarà disponible aviat a la botiga Android Play, el repositori de F-Droid i a la botiga de Windows.

Gràcies a tots,
Timothée i Johnny

gcompris 3.2

Avui fem el llançament del GCompris versió 3.2.

Aquesta versió nova conté algunes correccions d'errors en algunes activitats com ara «Descobreix el codi Morse internacional», «Controla la mànega» i activitats musicals.

També conté gràfics nous per a totes les activitats de memòria i per a «Trencaclosques de nadó».

S'ha afegit un argument nou de la línia d'ordres (--difficulty {valor|mín.-màx.}) que permet als usuaris forçar el filtre de dificultat amb un valor indicat o un interval.

La lletra Andika s'ha actualitzat a la seva darrera versió (6.200).

Està traduït completament als idiomes següents:

  • Bretó
  • Català
  • Català (Valencià)
  • Grec
  • Anglès RU
  • Espanyol
  • Basc
  • Francès
  • Croat
  • Italià
  • Lituà
  • Malaiàlam
  • Neerlandès
  • Noruec nynorsk
  • Polonès
  • Portuguès
  • Portuguès brasiler
  • Romanès
  • Eslovè
  • Turc
  • Ucraïnès
  • Xinès tradicional

També està traduït parcialment als idiomes següents:

  • Àzeri (99%)
  • Bielorús (79%)
  • Txec (88%)
  • Alemany (99%)
  • Estonià (99%)
  • Finès (94%)
  • Hebreu (99%)
  • Hongarès (99%)
  • Indonesi (99%)
  • Macedoni (94%)
  • Rus (99%)
  • Eslovac (77%)
  • Albanès (99%)
  • Suec (98%)

Gràcies a tots,
Timothée i Johnny

gcompris 3.1

Avui fem el llançament del GCompris versió 3.1.

Com que ens vam adonar que la versió 3.0 contenia un error crític en l'activitat nova «Comparador», hem decidit distribuir ràpidament aquesta versió de manteniment 3.1 per a solucionar el problema.

També conté petites actualitzacions de les traduccions.

Trobareu els paquets d'aquesta nova versió per a GNU/Linux, Windows, Raspberry Pi i macOS a la pàgina de baixades. Aquesta actualització estarà disponible aviat a la botiga Android Play, el repositori de F-Droid i a la botiga de Windows.

Gràcies a tots,
Timothée i Johnny

gcompris 3.0

Avui ens complau anunciar el llançament del GCompris versió 3.0.

Conté 182 activitats, incloent-hi 8 de noves:

  • «Entrena el clic del ratolí» és un exercici per a practicar l'ús d'un ratolí amb clic amb el botó dret i el botó esquerre.
  • A «Crea les fraccions», es representen quantitats decimals amb diversos gràfics de pastís o rectangles.
  • A «Troba les fraccions», és a la inversa: escriure la fracció representada per un diagrama de pastís o de rectangles.
  • Amb «Descobreix el codi Morse internacional» s'aprèn com comunicar-se amb el codi Morse internacional.
  • A «Compara els números» s'aprèn com comparar valors numèrics fent servir els símbols de comparació.
  • «Troba els complements a deu» és un exercici senzill per aprendre el concepte de complement a deu.
  • A «Intercanvia els complements a deu» cal intercanviar els nombres d'una suma per a optimitzar-la usant el complement a deu.
  • A «Usa els complements a deu» cal descompondre una suma per a optimitzar-la usant el complement a deu.

S'han afegit 2 opcions noves de la línia d'ordres:

  • Llista totes les activitats disponibles (-l o --list-activities)
  • Inicia directament una activitat específica (--launch nomActivitat)

Aquesta versió també conté diverses millores i esmenes d'errors.


Per la part de les traduccions, el GCompris 3.0 conté 36 llengües. 25 estan totalment traduïdes (àzeri, basc, bretó, anglès britànic, català, català (valencià), xinès tradicional, croat, neerlandès, francès, grec, hebreu, hongarès, italià, lituà, malaiàlam, noruec nynorsk, polonès, portuguès, romanès, rus, eslovè, espanyol, ucraïnès). 11 estan parcialment traduïts: (albanès (99%), bielorús (83%), portuguès brasiler (94%), txec (82%), finlandès (94%), alemany (91%), indonesi (99%), macedoni (94%), eslovac (77%), suec (94%) i turc (71%)).

Una nota especial sobre les veus ucraïneses que s'han afegit gràcies a l'organització «Salva els infants» que va finançar l'enregistrament. Ells van instal·lar el GCompris en 8000 tauletes i 1000 portàtils, i els van enviar a centres d'aprenentatge digital i altres espais segurs per a nens a Ucraïna.

Un col·laborador ha gravat també les veus croates.


Com d'habitual, podeu trobar els paquets d'aquesta nova versió per al GNU/Linux, Windows, Android, Raspberry Pi i macOS a la pàgina de baixades. Aquesta actualització també estarà disponible aviat a la botiga Android Play, el repositori de F-Droid i a la botiga de Windows.

Per als empaquetadors de distribucions GNU/Linux, cal tenir en compte que tenim una nova dependència del connector QML de QtCharts, i la versió mínima requerida de les Qt5 ara és la 5.12. També hem canviat l'ús dels QtQuick.Controls 1 a QtQuick.Controls 2.

Gràcies a tots,
Timothée i Johnny

gcompris 2.4

Avui fem el llançament del GCompris versió 2.4.

Hem optimitzat la mida de tots els paquets per a totes les plataformes i del conjunt d'imatges extern de paraules (30% més petit).

Si desactiveu la descàrrega automàtica i voleu que s'estableixin les imatges completes, haureu d'anar a la configuració i fer clic a «Baixa el conjunt complet d'imatges de les paraules».

Es mostra el text «Està instal·lat el conjunt complet d'imatges» a sota quan s'ha instal·lat la darrera versió.

S'han afegit les veus d'introducció del noruec nynorsk per Karl Ove Hufthammer i Øystein Steffensen-Alværvik. S'han completat les veus del malaiàlam per Aiswarya Kaitheri Kandoth.

S'han actualitzat moltes imatges per a diverses activitats.

També s'han corregit diversos errors a les activitats d'Energia renovable, Cicle de l'aigua i Associacions lògiques.

Trobareu els paquets d'aquesta nova versió per a GNU/Linux, Windows, Raspberry Pi i macOS a la pàgina de baixades. Aquesta actualització estarà disponible aviat a la botiga Android Play, el repositori de F-Droid i a la botiga de Windows.

Gràcies a tots,
Timothée i Johnny

gcompris 2.3

Avui fem el llançament del GCompris versió 2.3.

Ens hem adonat que la versió 2.2 s'havia distribuït amb un error que trencava 3 activitats («Ordre de l'alfabet», «Nombres parells i senars» i «Números en ordre»), hem decidit corregir-ho ràpidament amb un llançament nou de manteniment.

Trobareu els paquets d'aquesta nova versió per a GNU/Linux, Windows, Raspberry Pi i macOS a la pàgina de baixades. Aquesta actualització estarà disponible aviat a la botiga Android Play, el repositori de F-Droid i a la botiga de Windows.

Gràcies a tots,
Timothée i Johnny

gcompris 2.2

Hola,
ens complau anunciar el llançament de la versió 2.2 del GCompris.

Aquesta és una versió de manteniment, de manera que cada enviament de les distribucions de GNU/Linux de la 2.0 o 2.1 haurà d'actualitzar-se a la 2.2.

Aquí hi ha un resum dels canvis inclosos:

  • Imatges noves i correcció de molts problemes petits a les activitats de Cicle de l'aigua i Energies renovables.
  • Imatges noves a l'activitat de Tangram.
  • Ordenació millor de les lletres al teclat virtual (segueix l'opció de la configuració regional en el GCompris).
  • Corregix una fallada a l'Android en iniciar l'activitat Inclina la capsa.
  • Moltes altres correccions petites i millores.

Per la banda de les traduccions:

  • S'ha completat la traducció russa.
  • S'han afegit veus noves per al noruec nynorsk (totes excepte les veus d'introducció).

Trobareu els paquets d'aquesta nova versió per a GNU/Linux, Windows i macOS a la pàgina de baixades. Aquesta actualització estarà disponible aviat a la botiga Android Play, el repositori de F-Droid i a la botiga de Windows. El paquet per a Raspberry Pi també estarà disponible aviat.

Gràcies a tots,
Timothée i Johnny

gcompris 2.1

Hola,
ens complau anunciar el llançament de la versió 2.1 del GCompris.

Aquesta és una versió de manteniment, de manera que cada enviament de les distribucions de GNU/Linux de la 2.0 haurà d'actualitzar-se a la 2.1.

El canvi més important és que els actius baixats en algunes versions antigues de l'Android haurien de tornar a funcionar.

Aquí hi ha un resum dels canvis inclosos:

  • Distribueix el certificat SSL per a baixar els actius per a telèfons/tauletes Android antigues que no el tenen i fallen en baixar les dades (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=447572).
  • Els gràfics s'han actualitzat per a les activitats Inclina la capsa i Esborrar.
  • Corregeix un error en el comptador invers quan després que el peix fes un torn, no era possible guanyar fins i tot quan s'introduís el resultat correcte.
  • Corregeix una aturada a les activitats d'aprendre decimals en canviar els nivells.
  • Afegeix l'etiqueta negreta a la línia de controls del teclat en el camí de les activitats de codificació.
  • Corregeix la part inferior de la llista d'activitats que no era visible en desplaçar-se fins al final.
  • En el Windows, elimina el desenfocament a les pantalles HiDPI en instal·lar el GCompris.

Per la banda de les traduccions:

  • S'ha completat el bretó i el macedoni.
  • El txec ha tornat (per ara una traducció parcial per sobre del 80%).

Trobareu els paquets d'aquesta nova versió per a GNU/Linux, Windows i macOS a la pàgina de baixades. Aquesta actualització estarà disponible aviat a la botiga Android Play, el repositori de F-Droid i a la botiga de Windows. El paquet per a Raspberry Pi també estarà disponible aviat.

Gràcies a tots,
Timothée i Johnny

gcompris 2.0

Hola,
Ens complau anunciar el llançament de la versió 2.0 del GCompris. El valor educatiu, així com les hores de diversió i entreteniment que proporciona als infants de totes les edats el converteix en el present perfecte per a aquestes festes.

Conté moltes activitats noves i millorades. A continuació es mostra un resum dels canvis inclosos.

Activitats noves:

  • A «Ratolí de nadó» és per a que els infants aprenguin a interactuar amb un ordinador per primera vegada.
  • «Aualé» és un joc tradicional africà d'estratègia, es pot jugar contra l'ordinador o amb un amic.
  • «Codificació del camí» (absolut o relatiu) els infants han de donar un conjunt de direccions per a seguir un camí definit en una quadrícula.
  • «Descodifica el camí» (absolut o relatiu) és el contrari. Els infants han de crear el camí corresponent amb un conjunt definit de direccions.
  • A «Aprendre les quantitats», l'objectiu és comptar quants elements es necessiten per a representar una quantitat.
  • A «Nombres decimals», els infants retallen unitats a trossos per a aprendre el concepte dels nombres decimals.
  • A «Sumes amb nombres decimals» i «Restes amb nombres decimals» s'utilitzen els mateixos principis que a «Nombres decimals», però aquesta vegada per a practicar aquestes operacions.
  • Amb «Ordena els números», els infants poden practicar ordenant els números en ordre ascendent o descendent.
  • Amb «Ordena les lletres», els infants poden practicar ordenant les lletres en ordre alfabètic o en ordre invers.
  • «Ordena les frases» és un pas endavant en què els infants podran practicar la lectura i la gramàtica ordenant les parts d'una frase.
  • «Posicions» és una activitat per a aprendre els termes que descriuen la posició relativa d'un objecte.

Activitats millorades:

  • «Electricitat analògica» té un conjunt nou de nivells de guia d'aprenentatge.
  • «Programació en el laberint» té un conjunt de dades nou que conté operacions en bucle, i ara s'han traduït les imatges de la guia d'aprenentatge.
  • Les activitats de «Màgic» tenen conjunts de dades nous per als infants més petits.
  • Al «Sistema solar» ara utilitzem els dies i els anys de la Terra com a unitat per a tots els planetes.
  • A les activitats de «Geografia» s'han redibuixat i actualitzat tots els mapes, utilitzant millors projeccions i en format SVG. També hem afegit mapes nous per a cada part d'Àsia (est, sud-est, sud, centre i oest).
  • Imatges noves i millores visuals per a les activitats de «Hanoi», «La lletra que falta», «Diners», «Caçador de fotografies», «Pintura senzilla» i «Tangram».
  • Tenim una extensió nova de l'Inkscape per ajudar a crear mapes i trencaclosques en SVG (https://invent.kde.org/education/gcompris/-/tree/master/tools/inkscape).

... i moltes petites correccions i millores.


Al costat de les traduccions, el GCompris 2.0 conté 33 idiomes. 26 totalment admesos: (àzeri, albanès, basc, bielorús, portuguès brasiler, anglès britànic, català, català (valencià), xinès tradicional, neerlandès, estonià, finès, francès, grec, hebreu, hongarès, indonesi, italià, lituà, malai, polonès, portuguès, romanès, eslovè, espanyol, suec i ucraïnès). 7 traduïts parcialment: (alemany (96%), noruec nynorsk (96%), bielorús (83%), macedoni (82%), bretó (80%), turc (76%) i rus (76%)).

Com de costum, trobareu els paquets d'aquesta nova versió per a GNU/Linux, Windows, Raspberry Pi i macOS a la pàgina de baixades. Aquesta actualització estarà disponible aviat a la botiga Android Play, el repositori de F-Droid i a la botiga de Windows.

Gràcies a tots,
Timothée i Johnny

gcompris 1.1

Hola,
Ens complau anunciar el llançament de la versió 1.1 del GCompris.

Aquesta és una versió de manteniment, de manera que cada enviament de les distribucions de GNU/Linux de la 1.0 haurà d'actualitzar-se a la 1.1.

Aquí hi ha un resum dels canvis inclosos:

  • Els gràfics s'han actualitzat per a 21 activitats.
  • Hem esmenat un munt d'errors.
  • S'ha afegit una construcció per a Ubuntu Touch.
  • S'ha corregit l'ortografia dels districtes turcs.
  • Hem afegit un paquet alternatiu .msi mínim per a Windows.
  • L'executable del GCompris s'ha tornat a llicenciar sota l'AGPLv3 a causa d'una dependència en l'activitat «Electricitat analògica».

Al costat de les traduccions:

  • S'han completat l'albanès, bielorús, portuguès brasiler i rus.
  • L'irlandès gaèlic i el macedoni han tornat (per ara una traducció parcial per sobre del 80%).
  • S'han afegit els conjunts de paraules per a les activitats de vocabulari per a l'albanès i el macedoni.
  • S'han afegit totes les veus per al lituà.

Al costat de les traduccions, tenim 27 idiomes totalment admesos: albanès, basc, bielorús, portuguès brasiler, bretó, anglès britànic, català, català (valencià), xinès tradicional, neerlandès, francès, grec, hebreu, hongarès, indonesi, italià, macedoni, malai, polonès, portuguès, romanès, rus, eslovè, espanyol, suec, turc i ucraïnès.

També tenim 4 idiomes parcialment admesos: alemany (91%), gaèlic irlandès (87%), lituà (96%), noruec nynorsk (85%).

Trobareu els paquets d'aquesta nova versió per a GNU/Linux, Windows i macOS a la pàgina de baixades. Aquesta actualització estarà disponible aviat a la botiga Android Play, el repositori de F-Droid i a la botiga de Windows. El paquet per a Raspberry Pi també estarà disponible aviat.

Gràcies a tots,
Timothée i Johnny

Llançament del GCompris 1.0

Hola,
Per a celebrar els 20 anys del GCompris, ens complau anunciar el llançament de la versió 1.0 del GCompris.

Aquesta nova versió conté una nova característica important: l'addició del menú Ajustaments de l'activitat amb selecció del Conjunt de dades per a més de 50 activitats, el qual permet triar més específicament el que es podrà aprendre sobre les activitats.

També afegim 4 activitats noves:

  • La tan esperada activitat Electricitat analògica, la qual ens permet dibuixar circuits i executar la seva simulació.
  • Aprendre dígits i dues subactivitats per a aprendre sumes i restes. L'objectiu és ensenyar aquests conceptes amb càlculs senzills als infants.
  • Teclat de nadó, on, quan s'escriu un caràcter en el teclat, el mostrem en pantalla i es reprodueix la veu corresponent, si la tenim.
  • Gravetat, la qual substitueix a l'antiga Introducció a la gravetat, explica millor el concepte i és més realista.

  • Trobareu els paquets d'aquesta nova versió per a GNU/Linux, Windows, MacOS i Raspberry Pi a la pàgina de baixades. Aquesta actualització també estarà disponible aviat a la botiga Android Play, el repositori de F-Droid i a la botiga de Windows. Recordeu que el paquet de MacOS no està notariada.

    Pot consultar en aquesta pàgina l'estat de les veus en el vostre idioma: https://gcompris.net/voicestats/. Podeu ajudar-nos proporcionant una bona gravació de la vostra veu per a totes les entrades que falten en el vostre idioma nadiu.

    Al costat de les traduccions, tenim 22 idiomes totalment admesos: basc, bretó, anglès britànic, català, català (valencià), xinès tradicional, holandès, francès, grec, hebreu, hongarès, indonesi, italià, malai, polonès, portuguès, romanès, eslovè, espanyol, suec, turc i ucraïnès.

    També tenim 4 idiomes parcialment admesos: bielorús (85%), portuguès brasiler (92%), alemany (89%), lituà (84%).

    Com es va dir en la notícia anterior, vam decidir enviar només les traduccions que estiguin completades amb un mínim del 80%, de manera que els infants tinguin una millor experiència i no un programari traduït a mitges. Malauradament, vam haver d'eliminar les traduccions per a: estonià, finlandès, gaèlic irlandès, gaèlic escocès, gallec, hindi, macedoni, noruec nynorsk, rus, eslovac i xinès simplificat.

    Si el vostre idioma es troba a la llista de parcialment admès, ja no hi és o encara no s'admet, i voleu ajudar, contacteu amb nosaltres (support@gcompris.net) i us donarem instruccions per a començar a traduir.

    Una altra manera d'ajudar és escrivint algunes publicacions en la vostra comunitat sobre el GCompris. I no dubteu en donar-nos la vostra opinió.


    Gràcies a tots,
    Timothée i Johnny

    Hola,
    Ens complau anunciar que ara està disponible de franc la versió completa del GCompris per a totes les plataformes admeses!

    Els instal·ladors per al Windows i el macOS del nostre lloc web s'han actualitzat per no tornar a requerir un codi d'activació, i la versió completa a la Play Store i a la Microsoft Store ara és de franc.

    Esperem que aquest canvi faciliti que tots els infants del món tinguin accés al millor programari educatiu.


    Gràcies a tots,
    Timothée i Johnny

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    Hola,
    Ens complau anunciar l'alliberament del GCompris versió 0.97.

    Aquesta nova versió conté 2 noves activitats:

  • Programació en el laberint: per aprendre els conceptes bàsics de la programació amb unes poques instruccions
  • Tangram per a nadons: per aprendre els conceptes bàsics del Tangram (aquesta activitat correspon als nivells més baixos de l'anterior activitat del Tangram)

  • I un munt de novetats:

  • subcategories noves per organitzar les activitats
  • característica nova per a la música i pistes d'àudio de fons
  • ajustaments nous del volum per als efectes de l'àudio
  • ajustaments nous per a la velocitat en diverses activitats («gletters», «algebra», «readingh», «note_names»)
  • característica nova en les activitats d'escacs per a mostrar les peces capturades
  • opció nova per passar al següent nivell manualment en «drawletters» i «drawnumbers»
  • veus noves per a en_US
  • imatges noves per a l'activitat «colors»
  • imatges noves per a l'activitat «advanced_colors»
  • imatges noves per a l'activitat «target»
  • es milloren els ajustaments per a la disposició
  • es millora la disposició per a l'activitat «share»
  • es millora la disposició per a l'activitat «categorisation»
  • els fitxers dels recursos ara s'emmagatzemen al servidor KDE (https://cdn.kde.org/)
  • s'afegeix una guia d'aprenentatge per a Nombres parells i senars
  • s'afegeix una intro per a «piano_composition»
  • s'afegeix un conjunt de dades en malai a la «gletters»
  • s'afegeix un conjunt de dades en bretó a la «wordsgame»
  • s'esmenen les veus que no sonen a la «geography»
  • s'esmenen els sons que no sonen a la «mining»
  • s'esmena el mode retrat a la «binary_bulb̉»
  • s'esmena la càrrega alta de la CPU en el menú
  • s'esmena la mida de la imatge de consell a la «photo_hunter»
  • s'esmena la disposició a la «color_mix»
  • i un munt d'altres petites esmenes...

  • Trobareu els paquets d'aquesta nova versió per a GNU/Linux, Windows i MacOS a la pàgina de baixades. Aquesta actualització també estarà disponible aviat a les botigues Android Play i Windows Store. Per a la Raspberry Pi, proporcionarem un instal·lador aviat. La versió actualitzada per a iOS encara no està disponible. Recordeu que el paquet per al MacOS encara no està notariat, esperem poder fer-ho durant l'any que ve.

    Pel costat de les veus, afegim una nova veu «prova una altra vegada», la qual s'utilitza en diverses activitats en lloc de «comprova la resposta». A fi de comprovar en aquesta pàgina si aquesta veu està disponible en el vostre idioma: https://gcompris.net/voicestats/ (a la secció «Misc»). Podeu ajudar-nos proporcionant una bona gravació de la vostra veu per a totes les entrades que falten en el vostre idioma nadiu.

    Això vol dir que ara tenim 20 idiomes completament admesos: anglès britànic, basc, bretó, català, eslovac, espanyol, francès, gallec, grec, holandès, italià, macedoni, malai, polonès, portuguès, portuguès brasiler, romanès, suec, ucraïnès i xinès tradicional.

    Tenim 15 idiomes parcialment admesos: alemany (96%), català (valencià 95%), hongarès (95%), indonesi (95%), turc (95%), estonià (93%), noruec nynorsk (93%), finlandès (86%), gaèlic irlandès (78%), rus (76%), hindi (73%), gaèlic escocès (67%), xinès simplificat (66%), bielorús (65%) i eslovè (54%).

    En general, només enviem traduccions que almenys estan completes al 80%. No obstant això, per a aquest llançament, diverses traduccions han minvat per sota del 80% (en especial l'eslové, el bielorús i el gaèlic escocès -però també l'hindi, el rus i el gaèlic irlandès-). Hem decidit mantenir-les excepcionalment per a aquest llançament, i esperem veure traductors antics o nous que les completin. Si obtenim actualitzacions o traduccions noves, farem una actualització de llançament.

    Per tant, si el vostre idioma es troba a la llista de parcialment compatible o encara no és compatible i voleu ajudar, poseu-vos en contacte amb nosaltres i us donarem instruccions per començar a traduir.

    Una altra forma d'ajudar-nos és escriure algunes publicacions a la vostra comunitat sobre el GCompris, i no dubteu en enviar-nos comentaris.

    Notes:

  • Per a la llengua malaia, hem vist alguns problemes amb el tipus de lletra predeterminat «Andika-R». Recomanem als usuaris del malai que seleccionin el tipus de lletra «Noto-Sans-Malayalam» o «RaghuMalaylamSans» des del menú de l'aplicació (si no està disponible a la llista, primer l'haureu d'instal·lar al vostre sistema per a poder-la seleccionar).

  • Gràcies a tots,
    Timothée i Johnny

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    Hola,
    Ens complau anunciar l'alliberament del GCompris versió 0.96.

    Aquesta nova versió inclou la traducció actualitzada de diversos idiomes i algunes correccions d'errors.

    Traduccions que han rebut una gran actualització:

  • Portuguès brasiler (100%)
  • Bretó (100%)
  • Finès (90%)
  • Indonesi (100%)
  • Noruec nynorsk (97%)
  • Polonès (100%)

  • Això vol dir que ara tenim 19 idiomes completament admesos: anglès britànic, portuguès brasiler, bretó, català, català (valencià), xinès tradicional, neerlandès, francès, gallec, grec, hongarès, indonesi, italià, malai, polonès, suec i ucraïnès.

    Tenim 15 idiomes parcialment admesos: basc (78%), bielorús (68%), xinès simplificat (69%), estonià (62%), finlandès (90%), alemany (84%), hindi (76%), gaèlic irlandès (82%), noruec nynorsk 97%), rus (77%), gaèlic escocès (70%), eslovac (62%), eslovè (56%), espanyol (93%), turc (73%).

    Vam decidir de nou per a aquest llançament mantenir les traduccions que baixaven per sota del 80%. Seria trist haver de desactivar 10 idiomes de l'aplicació, però si ningú actualitza les següents traduccions, es veuran inhabilitades en el proper llançament: basc, bielorús, xinès simplificat, estonià, hindi, rus, gaèlic escocès, eslovac, eslovè i turc.

    Per a la versió de Windows, hem afegit una nova entrada al menú d'inici anomenada GCompris (mode segur) per a llançar-la amb el mode de representació per programari. Això era necessari perquè la detecció automàtica de l'OpenGL no era fiable. Ara, els usuaris poden triar amb facilitat entre OpenGL i la representació per programari sense canviar el fitxer de configuració.

    Problemes coneguts:

  • La barra de progrés de les baixades ja no funciona. Aquest és un efecte secundari del nostre canvi a https per allotjar els fitxers. Estem buscant millorar-ho per al pròxim llançament.

  • Com a nota lateral dedicada als empaquetadors per a la distribució GNU/Linux, aquesta nova versió ara requereix OpenSSL per a poder baixar les veus i imatges addicionals.

    Com és habitual, podeu baixar aquesta nova versió des de la nostra pàgina de baixades. Aviat també estarà disponible a la botiga d'Android i Windows.

    Gràcies a tots,
    Timothée i Johnny

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    Hola,
    Bones notícies per als usuaris de Mac: finalment tenim una nova versió del GCompris per a OSX!

    La darrera versió del GCompris per OSX va ser la 0.52 ja fa 3 anys. Des de llavors, ningú de l'equip l'ha pogut actualitzar per manca de maquinari. Gràcies a en Boudewijn de la Fundació Krita, ara tenim un petit Mac mini, antic, però prou bo per a construir els nostres paquets. Em va dur diversos dies de treball dedicat per aprendre aquesta nova plataforma i actualitzar el sistema de compilació per a produir un paquet distribuïble.


    Aquest paquet s'ha construït i provat a l'OSX 10.13. Si la podeu provar en una versió OSX diferent, feu-nos saber si funciona bé.

    L'instal·lador .dmg està disponible a la pàgina de baixades.

    Aquesta vegada hem decidit deixar de distribuir-la des de l'App Store. Quant a la versió per a iOS, trigarà més temps abans de poder-la veure, i encara no disposem de cap dispositiu per a provar-la.

    Notes: aquest paquet està basat en el GCompris versió 0.95. Està construït amb l'última versió de les Qt (5.12.0), les quals han introduït algunes regressions. Hem esmenat tots aquests problemes, però algunes d'aquestes esmenes per ara només es troben en la versió de desenvolupament. Es trenquen algunes activitats (checkers, braille, braille_alphabet, algorithm), però farem un nou llançament el proper mes que també abordarà aquests petits problemes.

    Gràcies a tots,
    Timothée: l'equip del GCompris

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    Hola,
    Ens complau anunciar l'alliberament del GCompris versió 0.95.

    Aquesta nova versió conté 7 noves activitats:

  • Bombetes binàries: per aprendre a comptar en binari
  • Activitat del ferrocarril: per entrenar la memòria visual
  • Sistema solar: per a conèixer el nostre sistema solar
  • El nom d'aquesta nota: per aprendre a reconèixer les notes musicals i els seus noms
  • Toca el piano: per a entrenar la lectura de les notes emprant una puntuació
  • Toca el ritme: per a entrenar seguint un ritme musical
  • Composició per a piano: per aprendre la composició d'una partitura musical

  • Trobareu els paquets d'aquesta nova versió per a GNU/Linux i Windows a la pàgina de baixades. Aquesta actualització també estarà disponible en pocs dies a la botiga d'Android i Windows. Per a la Raspberry Pi, proporcionarem un instal·lador a principis de 2019. Les versions actualitzades per a MacOS i iOS encara no estan disponibles, esperem poder alliberar-les durant l'any que ve.

    Pel que fa a les traduccions, tenim 15 idiomes totalment admesos: anglès britànic, català, català (valencià), xinès tradicional, holandès, francès, gallec, grec, hongarès, italià, malai, portuguès, romanès, suec i ucraïnès.
    També tenim 19 idiomes parcialment admesos: basc (78%), bielorús (69%), portuguès brasiler (74%), bretó (54%), xinès simplificat (69%), estonià (63%), finès (61%), alemany (86%), hindi (77%), indonesi (84%), gaèlic irlandès (82%), noruec nynorsk (89%), rus (74%), gaèlic escocès (71%), eslovac (62%), eslové (57%), polonès (94%) i turc (74%).

    En general, només enviem traduccions que almenys estan completes al 80%. No obstant això, per a aquest llançament, diverses traduccions han minvat per sota del 80%. Hem decidit mantenir-les excepcionalment per a aquest llançament, i esperem veure traductors antics o nous que les completin. Si obtenim actualitzacions o traduccions noves, farem una actualització menor de llançament.
    Per tant, si el vostre idioma es troba a la llista de parcialment compatible o encara no és compatible i voleu ajudar-vos, poseu-vos en contacte amb nosaltres i us donarem instruccions per començar a traduir.

    Una altra forma d'ajudar-nos és escriure algunes publicacions a la vostra comunitat sobre el GCompris, i no dubteu en enviar-nos comentaris.

    Notes:

  • A GNU/Linux i Windows solíem tenir dos instal·ladors independents per a la representació OpenGL i per programari. Ara, els dos modes de representació estan disponibles des del mateix instal·lador. Per defecte, intentem usar la representació OpenGL i, si no funciona, es mostra un error i canviem a la representació per programari. Aquest canvi automàtic és nou i pot ser que no funcioni a tot arreu. En cas que no ho faci, podeu seleccionar manualment el mode de representació per programari editant el fitxer de configuració (a ~/.config/gcompris-qt/gcompris-qt.conf per a Linux, i %LocalAppData%/gcompris/GCompris.conf per a Windows ): cerqueu la línia «renderer=auto», substituïu «auto» per «software» i deseu el fitxer. També ens interessa rebre algun comentari per ajudar-nos a millorar aquesta detecció automàtica.
  • Per a la llengua malaia, hem vist alguns problemes amb el tipus de lletra predeterminat «Andika-R». Recomanem als usuaris del malai que seleccionin el tipus de lletra «Noto-Sans-Malayalam» des del menú de l'aplicació (si no està disponible a la llista, primer l'haureu d'instal·lar al vostre sistema per a poder-la seleccionar).
  • Gràcies a tots,
    Timothée i Johnny

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    Hola,
    Aquí està el GCompris 0.91, una nova versió per a solucionar errors que corregeixen alguns problemes de la versió anterior i en millora algunes coses.

    Cada distribució de GNU/Linux s'ha d'actualitzar a la 0.91.

    Amb 68 commits des de la darrera versió, la llista de canvis completa és massa llarga per a aquesta publicació. Però a continuació, hi ha una llista que en resumeix els canvis.

    Activitats:

  • esmena el text en anglès en diverses activitats
  • esmena la posició de la puntuació en diverses activitats
  • bloqueja alguns botons i interaccions en diversos llocs quan és necessari
  • moltes esmenes per a l'àudio en diverses activitats
  • «number_sequence» (i altres que s'hi basen), esmena el disseny de la base
  • actualitza el conjunt de dades per a «clickanddraw», «drawumbers» i «drawletters»
  • «crane», afegeix un conjunt de dades traduïble
  • «lightsoff», afegeix suport per al teclat i altres esmenes
  • «algorithm», afegeix suport per al teclat i altres esmenes
  • «money», esmenes per a la configuració regional emprada per a la moneda
  • «ballcatch», millora els comentaris en àudio
  • «calendar», diverses petites esmenes
  • «memory-case-association», esmena la mida de les icones

  • Altres canvis:

  • torna a habilitar els efectes de so a linux
  • millora la reproducció dels efectes de so, sense més retards
  • afegeix subtítols a les imatges i a les etiquetes d'OARS a les dades de l'aplicació
  • afegeix el gaèlic escocès al nucli i actualitza alguns dels seus conjunts de dades
  • barra principal, esmena la mida d'alguns elements
  • elimina les imatges que no s'empraven

  • Trobareu aquesta nova versió a la pàgina de baixades, i aviat a les botigues Google Play i Windows Store.

    Pel que fa a les traduccions, tenim 16 idiomes totalment admesos: anglès britànic, català, català (valencià), xinès tradicional, holandès, francès, grec, indonesi, gaèlic irlandès, italià, polonès, portuguès, romanès, espanyol, suec i ucraïnès.
    També tenim 15 idiomes parcialment admesos: noruec nynorsk (97%), hindi (96%), turc (90%), gaèlic escocès (86%), gallec (86%), portuguès brasiler (84%), bielorús (84%), alemany (81%), xinès simplificat (79%), rus (78%), estonià (77%), eslovac (76%), finlandès (76%), eslovè (69%) i bretó (65%).

    Si voleu ajudar a completar alguna d'aquestes traduccions o afegir-ne una de nova, contacteu amb nosaltres.

    També podeu ajudar-nos fent algunes publicacions a la vostra comunitat sobre el GCompris i no dubteu a enviar-nos comentaris.

    Gràcies a tots,
    Timothée & Johnny

    screenshots of the new activities in version 0.90

    Hi,

    We are happy to bring you GCompris 0.90.

    This new version contains 8 new activities:

  • A calendar activity where the child learns how to use it (by Amit Sagtani)
  • Another activity based on calendar where the child has to find the date corresponding to a date + some days further/before this date (by Amit Sagtani))
  • An activity to learn how people on a family are related and how to call this relation (started by Rajdeep Kaur on a previous GSoC, completed by Rudra Nil Basu during last GSoC)
  • Another similar activity with questions about family members
  • An extension of memory activities where the child has to match lowercase letters with their corresponding uppercase (by Aman Gupta)
  • The same activity in two players mode with Tux (by Aman Gupta)
  • The Gtk+ port and improved submarine activity where the child learns a basic overview on how to run a submarine (by Rudra Nil Basu)
  • The digital electricity activity where the child can use different components to create an electric schema. There is also a tutorial mode to explain how to use each component (started by Pulkit Gupta on previous GSoC, completed by Rudra Nil Basu)

  • We always have new features, content and bug fixes:

  • Updated graphics on several activities by Timothée Giet
  • Irish translation, voices and datasets by Séamus Ó Briain
  • Lot of improvements on removing overriding elements issues (score were hidden behind the bar...)
  • Add Tutorial item to be able to have activity introductions with both images and texts
  • Add easy mode in letter in word with less words displayed
  • Add license page
  • Lots of small bug fixes

  • You can find this new version on the download page.


    On the translation side, we have 14 languages fully supported: British English, Catalan, Catalan (Valencian), Chinese Traditional , Dutch, French, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian;
    And some partially supported: Belarusian (87%), Brazilian Portuguese (87%), Breton (65%), Chinese Simplified (80%), Estonian (79%), Finnish (78%), Galician(87%), German (83%), Hindi (86%), Irish Gaelic (99%), Norwegian Nynorsk (86%), Russian (80%), Slovak (76%), Slovenian (70%), Polish (99%), Turkish (93%).

    If you want to help, please make some posts in your community about GCompris and don't hesitate to give feedbacks.

    Thank you all,
    Timothée & Johnny

    GCompris in Windows Store

    As the title says, you can now buy the full version of GCompris for Windows 10 from the Windows Store.

    This is a good way to make it more visible and easy to find for new users. Also, if you buy GCompris from the Windows Store, you get automatic updates, you can install it easily on all your Windows systems, and it will run in a sandbox.

    Spread the word !

    GCompris in Windows Store

    If you prefer to not use the store, or if you only want the free demo version, you can still download it from our Download page, and buy the activation code to unlock all the activities. The store is just one more way to distribute GCompris, and to provide some income to support the project.

    As usual, the full version is free on Free-Software operating systems like GNU/Linux, but for proprietary operating systems like Windows, the full version has a cost. Of course, the source code of GCompris is and will always be under a Free-Software license.

    Note: the package on the store contains the version using the software renderer instead of OpenGL, since it's the only way we have for now to make sure it will work on any computer. If you really want the version using OpenGL, get it from our Download page.

    Raspberry Pi gcompris on Raspberry Pi

    We are very happy to bring you GCompris 0.81, this time on Raspberry Pi.

    This version for Raspberry Pi was made possible thanks to the new "light" mode that we've been working on (read the previous post to learn more about this new rendering mode).

    It was built and tested on Raspberry Pi 3, where it works good. Since it was not tested a lot yet, this first package is considered beta. Please report any issue you may experience with it. If you can try it on a Pi 2, please let us know the result. It was also not tested on Pi 1, but those probably don't have enough cpu and/or ram to run it.

    The installer is on the Download page with all instructions needed to use it.

    Thank you all,
    Timothée & Johnny

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    We are happy to bring you GCompris 0.81.

    This is a bugfix release to correct some issues in previous version. All GNU/Linux distributions shipping 0.80 should update to 0.81.

    Also, we introduce a new "light" version that doesn't require OpenGL to run. This means that it should work on any computer. We provide some special windows packages using this option, and also the standalone installer for GNU/Linux 32bit is using this option. In this light version, the transparency gradient on the menu is gone, and we had to adapt a dozen of activities that will look a little different in this mode, but should still be usable.

    We also added a new Download page on the website, with instructions for each operating system.

    Last but not least, we now have translation for Indonesian, thanks to some very nice contributors who organised a sprint in Indonesia to work on it.

    The most important changes in this version are:

  • Categorization, fix the "Shape" category
  • Categorization, fix the menu layout
  • Categorization, display score in expert mode
  • Guesscount, fix invalid result
  • Add Indonesian locale
  • Fix the missing copyright and licence info
  • Fix a font issue on windows version
  • Add a new minimal version with software rendering (requires Qt 5.8)

  • Activities modified to run with software rendering:

  • crane
  • categorization
  • lang
  • hanoi
  • tangram
  • land_safe
  • click_on_letter
  • left/right
  • hexagon
  • magic_hat
  • color_mix
  • color_mix_light

  • You can find this new version here:

  • Android:
  • The new version is available in the Android store

  • Windows:
  • Windows 32bit or Windows 64bit version

  • Windows (light version - No OpenGL):
  • Windows 32bit - No OpenGL or Windows 64bit - No OpenGL version

  • Linux:
  • If your distribution doesn't provide an updated package, use one of those standalone installers. They must be launched from command line, after adding executable permission on the file. Check the Download page for more info.
    Linux 32bit or Linux 64bit version

  • Source code

  • md5sums :
  • For all downloads: md5sums

  • GPG verification :
  • The source tarball, the windows and the GNU/Linux installers are signed. You can retrieve the public key over https here: 0x63d7264c05687d7e.asc.

    Thank you all,
    Timothée & Johnny

    screenshots of the new activities in version 0.80

    Hi,

    We are pleased to announce the release of GCompris version 0.80.

    This new version contains 6 new activities:

  • a categorization activity where the child has to categorize item depending on the theme (by Divyam Madaan)
  • a guess count game where the child has to find the good operation to find a given number (by Rahul Yadav)
  • a game where you have to let the opponent put the last ball (by Utkarsh Tiwari)
  • same as above but the child plays with a friend (by Utkarsh Tiwari)
  • a checkers game (by Johnny Jazeix)
  • same as above but the child plays with a friend (by Johnny Jazeix)

  • We always have new features and bug fixes:

  • Polish lang dataset by Łukasz Wojniłowicz
  • Swedish lang dataset by Stefan Asserhäll
  • Ukrainian lang dataset by Yuri Chornoivan
  • new icons
  • updated graphics on several activities
  • lots of bug fixes
  • website translation migrated to KDE infrastructure and translated in Belarusian, Catalan, Catalan (Valencia), Romanian, Portuguese and Ukrainian
  • new mingw windows builds
  • partial translations in Greek and Hindi

  • You can find this new version here:

  • Android:
  • The new version is available in the Android store

  • Windows:
  • Windows 32bit or Windows 64bit version

  • Linux:
  • If your distribution doesn't provide an updated package, use one of those standalone installers. They must be launched from command line, after adding executable permission on the file. (based on Centos7 - will not work on distributions with older system libraries).
    Linux 32bit or Linux 64bit version

  • Source code

  • md5sums :
  • For all downloads: md5sums

  • GPG verification :
  • The source tarball, the windows and the GNU/Linux installers are signed. You can retrieve the public key over https here: 0x63d7264c05687d7e.asc.

    On the translation side, we have 17 languages fully supported: Belarusian, British English, Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Catalan (Valencian), Dutch, French, Galician, Italian, Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian; and some partially: Breton (75%), Chinese Simplified (88%), Chinese Traditional (90%), Estonian (91%), Finnish (63%), German (92%), Greek (90%), Hindi (98%), Russian (88%), Slovak (88%), Slovenian (80%).

    If you want to help, please make some posts in your community about GCompris.

    Thank you all,
    Timothée & Johnny

    screenshots of the new activities in version 0.61

    Hi,

    just in time for Christmas, we are pleased to announce you the new GCompris version 0.70.

    It is an important release because we officially drop the Gtk+ version for Windows to use the Qt one. Everyone who bought the full version for the last two years will get a new activation code in a few days.

    Also, for people who like numbers, we are beyond 100000 downloads in the google play store.

    This new version contains 8 new activities, half of them being created by last Google Summer of Code students:

  • an activity where the child has to move elements to build a given model (crane by Stefan Toncu)
  • an activity to draw the numbers from 0 to 9 (drawnumbers by Nitish Chauhan)
  • an activity to draw the letters (drawletters by Nitish Chauhan)
  • an activity to find on which words a given letter belongs (letter-in-word by Akshat Tandon)
  • the nine men morris game against Tux (nine_men_morris by Pulkit Gupta)
  • the nine men morris game with a friend (nine_men_morris_2_players by Pulkit Gupta)
  • an activity to learn to split a given number of candies amonst children (share by Stefan Toncu)
  • an activity to learn roman numbers (roman_numerals by Bruno Coudoin)

  • We always have new features and bug fixes:

  • search feature by Rishabh Gupta
  • windows build by Bruno Coudoin and Johnny Jazeix
  • hint icon in the bar (used in photohunter) by Johnny Jazeix
  • neon build by Jonathan Riddell
  • we are now in openSUSE Tumbleweed repository thanks to the Bruno Friedmann
  • archlinux (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gcompris-qt/) by Jose Riha
  • package on mageia cauldron by Timothee Giet
  • package for KaOS by demm
  • word list for Slovakia by Jose Riha
  • word list for Belarusian by Antos Vaclauski
  • various updates on Romanian wordlists and voices (probably the most complete one) by Horia Pelle
  • voices added for Portuguese Brazilian by Marcos D.
  • new graphics for crane by Timothee Giet
  • screenshots on gcompris.net updated to the Qt version by Timothee and Johnny

  • You can find this new version here:
    Android version
    Windows 32bit or Windows 64bit version
    Linux version (64bit)
    source code

    On the translation side, we have 15 languages fully supported: Belarusian, British English, Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Catalan (Valencian), Dutch, Estonian, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian and some partially: Breton (82%), Chinese Simplified (93%), Chinese Traditional (91%), Finnish (70%), Galician (93%), German (97%), Norwegian Nynorsk (98%), Russian (83%), Slovak (85%), Slovenian (88%), Turkish (77%).

    If you want to help, please make some posts in your community about GCompris.

    screenshots of the new activities in version 0.61

    After 7 months, we are proud to announce the new version of GCompris 0.61.

    One important change on the commercial side of GCompris. Bruno Coudoin is now replaced by Timothée Giet as the commercial entity. Timothée is a graphic artist with a long list of contributions on GCompris and in the KDE community. After 16 years of continuous development on GCompris, Bruno is willing to step down and gives the opportunity to a new team to bring the project forward. For now, all sales go to Timothée and he is in charge of the commercial support. There are no changes in the licensing nor in the development process which is still under the responsability of the KDE community (Johnny Jazeix being the most active contributor).

    The new activities are:

  • A simple wordprocessor (baby_word_processor by Bruno Coudoin), this activity is not available on mobile platforms due to issues with the virtual keyboard: if we only use the real keyboard, styles don't apply and if we only use the virtual keyboard, we can't navigate in the text, select it...
  • A tangram (by Bruno Coudoin). It starts with children friendly levels to introduce each concepts little by little and end up in the real tangram.
  • Explore the monuments of the world (explore_monuments by Ayush Agrawal during SoK).
  • An activity in which the children must color a graph so that no two adjacent nodes have the same color (graph_coloring by Akshat Tandon during SoK).
  • Pilot the spaceship towards the green landing area (land_safe by Holger Kaelberer).
  • Find the differences between the two pictures (photo_hunter by Stefan Toncu).
  • Timothée Giet updated images for chess, hangman and horizontal/vertical reading activities along with the gcompris logo.

    Lots of little fixes/improvements have been done (storing and restoring the window's width/height at start-up, docbook updated, levels/images bonus, adding an internal dataset for words games so that we no more expect the network to run GCompris (except for the voices but they also can be bundled in the binary).

    On translation side, we have 17 languages fully supported: Belarusian, British English, Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Catalan (Valencian), Chinese Simplified, Dutch, French, Galician, Italian, Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian and some partially: Breton (88%), Chinese Traditional (97%), Estonian (82%), Finnish (74%), German (93%), Russian (83%), Slovak (76%), Slovenian (82%), Turkish (82%)

    If you want to help, please make some posts in your community about GCompris.

    The source code tarball is available here (GNU/Linux packagers are welcome)

    For Android it is available on the Google play store.

    I am glad to announce that GCompris is now available on the Apple iOS store (iPad and iPhone).

    Two years ago I just went out with the insane project of rewriting GCompris in Qt Quick and provide a version to mobile users. Many of you joined the project and made the dream comes true. We now have a free software for children available on all major platforms and most important we give them the ability to choose a free operating system.

    We now have a solid software foundation, a vibrant little community and almost completed the Gtk+ port. There are still many things to do. I would like to see more innovative activities, we can experiment, exchange with teachers and find activities that will help them and the children in their teaching.

    screenshots of the new activities in version 0.50

    Just on time for Christmas and after 6 months of hard work we are shipping GCompris 0.50. So far we have many fixes and improvements all around in 563 commits done by 17 contributors and more than 20 translators.

    Just looking at the 12 new activities:

  • Bruno: A single player and two player chess activity. It shows the children the possibilities of each pieces and is very easy to win against at first levels.
  • Bruno: An activity where the children listen to the sound sequence played, and reproduce it by clicking on xylophone's bars.
  • Siddhesh Suthar (part of GSoC): The children is proposed a set of words. Each word is shown with a voice, a text and an image. When done, an exercise asks him to find the right word given the voice.
  • Pulkit Gupta: A puzzle with famous paintings.
  • Johnny Jazeix, A reading practice activity. Some words are moving, it trains the children to read.
  • Sagar Chand Agarwal (part of GSoC): A scientific simulation where the children click on the different stages to make up the power supply.
  • Sagar Chand Agarwal (part of GSoC): The water system. In it, the children has to click on different active elements: sun, cloud, pumping station, and the sewage treatment plant, in order to reactivate the entire water system.
  • Holger: A fine motor skill practice activity. The children must navigate the ball to the door. Be careful to not make it fall into the holes. On mobile it uses the accelerometer. For this activity we have integrated the box2d engine ( https://github.com/qml-box2d/qml-box2d ).
  • Rajdeep Kaur: The classical hangman. The children must guess the letters of the given word. To help, on every wrong try, a part of the image representing the word will be revealed.
  • Languages supported: Brazilian Portuguese, British English, Catalan, Catalan (Valencian), Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Dutch, Finnish (92% translated), French, Galician, German, Italian, Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, Russian (98% translated), Slovak (92% translated), Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian.

    A loading overlay is now available to let the user know that some actions (loading a level in an activity for example) is taking place and can take some seconds. We also fixed visual glitches in some activities due to a misuse of ColorOverlay and Colorize items.

    Thanks to all of you who step by step make GCompris the outstanding educational software it is now.

    So far 2 years after the start of the Qt Quick port we completed the rewrite of 114 activities out of the 140 of the Gtk+version. You can check the status of the port. If we keep this momentum we can expect to announce the completion of the port somewhere next year.

    If you want to help, please make some posts in your community about GCompris.

    The source code tarball is available here (GNU/Linux packagers are welcome)

    For Android it is available on the Google play store.

    Bug fixes and improvements:

    • core, proper locale detection from the env variable
    • explore_wold_animals, changed the map background
    • german translation fix for letter 'b' broken in hangman
    • play_piano, fix string too large for button in some languages
    • play_rhythm, made a bigger text area to accomodate larger translations
    • add a generic-name entry in our desktop file
    • windows, set a bat file as a startup entry point to avoid the R6034 error
    • piano_composition, fix image name (eighth instead of quarter) by Johnny Jazeix

    Translations update:

    • Added Bosnian translation by Samir Ribic
    • Fixes to Catalan translation by Jordi Mas
    • Updated ALL_LINGUAS by Piotr Drąg
    • Updated Czech translation by Marek Černocký
    • Updated Hebrew translation by Yosef Or Boczko
    • Updated Hungarian translation by Balázs Úr
    • Updated Lithuanian translation by Aurimas Černius
    • Updated Portuguese translation by Pedro Albuquerque
    • Updated Scottish Gaelic translation
    • Updated Spanish translation by Daniel Mustieles
    • Updated Swedish translation by Anders Jonsson and Josef Andersson
    • Updated Turkish translation by Atilla ÖNTAŞ

    Voices:

    • Updated Brazilian Portuguese by Marcos Dias Meneghel
    • Initial catalan voices by Antoni Bella Pérez

    The Randa meeting is an annual KDE sprint that takes place in Randa, Switzerland from the 6th to the 13th of September.

    Participants donate their time to help improve the software you love and this is why we need money to cover hard expenses like accommodation and travel to get the volunteer contributors to Randa. The Randa Meetings will benefit everyone who uses KDE software.

    This year, the GCompris team will go to Randa Meetings to continue and finalize the Qt Quick port. After one and a half year of development we ported 100 activities on the 140 of the Gtk+ version. We have several activities in the pipe coming from our Google of Code students. In Randa we will continue the review and integration of the pending activities, and define how we will implement the most challenging ones that remains to be ported. We will also take this opportunity to record the voice of any participant to improve our international support.

    You can support the Randa Meetings by making a donation, following the official page.

    Randa Fundraiser Banner

    The release 0.41 is available on the Google play store.

    Since last version (0.34), we added 17 activities making GCompris going over 100 activities (103 to be precise): algebra_div, babymatch, babyshapes, braille_fun, chronos, details, geo-country, geography, hanoi, hanoi_real, imagename, intro_gravity, louis-braille, simplepaint, superbrain, tic_tac_toe and tic_tac_toe_2players.

    Moreover, thanks to KDE translation teams, we have 16 languages fully supported: Ukrainian, Swedish, Spanish, Slovenian (new), Portuguese, Polish, Norwegian Nynorsk, Italian, German (new), Galician (new), French, Dutch, Chinese Traditional, Catalan, British English and Brazilian Portuguese.

    Also, following out indiegogo campaign, Timothée Giet managed to update all icons (activities + core ones) along with some background images. You can see the result in this video.

    Bug fixes and improvements:

    • missing_letter, data fix for bolsa and pastel in Spanish by Edy Paz
    • lang, fix a bug in case of excactly 12 triplets in the dataset by Jan Boon
    • trying to avoid a crash case in the menu by Bruno Coudoin
    • gletters, add Norwegian Bokmål dataset based on the Nynorsk one by Bruno Coudoin
    • Fix a typo in submarine.c by Gabor Kelemen

    Translations update:

    • Updated Russian translation by Stas Solovey
    • Updated Spanish translation by Daniel Mustieles
    • Updated Serbian translation by Мирослав Николић
    • Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation by Rafael Ferreira
    • Updated Hungarian translation by Balázs Úr
    • Updated Czech translation by Marek Černocký
    • Updated Hungarian translation by Balázs Úr

    Bug fixes and improvements:

    • A new activity in the reading section to learn words. Currently supports German, English, Spanish, French, Gaelic and Brazilian Portuguese
    • Menu, add a message when we have no favorite
    • Menu, better icon for locked activities
    • Falling letters, adaptative falling speed on success / failure
    • Color mixing, fixed broken image on some system. Fixed text position.
    • Fix a crash in restricted profile.
    • Disabled particle effects as it crashes on several Android devices
    • Our VirtualKeyboard has a larger key height
    • On many activities, normalized difficulty levels. Now level 1 does not require reading skills.
    • DialogConfig, allow to set a base font-size
    • DialogConfig, better layout in portrait mode
    • Android: stop all audio playback when application leaves active state
    • Ask for downloading voices at the first start
    • No more show the blocked activities if in demo mode (An option can enable it)
    • Update of Andika and OpenDyslexic fonts

    Translations update:

    Ukrainian (Yuri Chornoivan), Swedish (Stefan Asserhäll), Portuguese (José Nuno Coelho Pires), Polish (Łukasz Wojniłowicz), French (Ludovic Grossard), Dutch (Freek de Kruijf), Chinese Simplified (Weng Xuetian), Brazilian Portuguese (Luiz Fernando Ranghetti).

    New translations:

    Norwegian Nynorsk (Karl Ove Hufthammer), Italian (Vincenzo Reale), Catalan (Antoni Bella Pérez), British English.

    Developpers:

    Bruno Coudoin, Burkhard Lück, Holger Kaelberer, Johnny Jazeix, Karl Ove Hufthammer, Luigi Toscano, Paolo Gibellini.

    We are happy to announce that we published on Google play store the first public version of GCompris.

    One year ago we made the hard decision to fully rewrite GCompris in QtQuick in order to address tablet users while keeping PC compatibility. As you can imagine it is a daunting task and something for sure that cannot be done alone. Thanks to the help of the many contributors who joined the project we have been able to port 86 activities out of the 140 of the legacy version in a year. See the status report. We hope to complete the port in the coming year. We continue to polish the new version every day but we already provide a better user experience than the legacy version.

    We would like to take this opportunity to thanks the KDE community at large who took us under its cute umbrella and allowed us to attract numerous contributors, developers, translators and provided us development support.

    Some numbers, within a year GCompris had 1211 commits made by 19 contributors representing 34000 lines of code plus the 8 KDE translation teams who reached 100% (Ukrainian, Swedish, Portuguese, Polish, French, Dutch, Chinese Simplified and Brazilian Portuguese).

    As you will see, the full Android version is sold for 6€ now but the price will have to be adjusted to find the optimal one. Software development is a lot of work, paying for GCompris is a good way to reward us and give us the opportunity to sustain the development on our beloved project. Another very easy way to help us is to share the news and rate us on Google play.

    We are launching a crowd funding campain with the goal to bring a new improved and unified graphics to GCompris.

    Currently the graphics are one of the weakest part, as they were mostly done by the developers, using free graphics assets and sparse graphic artist contributions.

    To address this problem, we found Timothée Giet, a talented graphic artist interested in working on a complete graphics redesign. He is a long standing Free-Software contributor, active member of the Krita team and so part of the KDE community.

    Making new graphics for more than 100 activities is a big work, so we need your help to achieve this goal..

    Be a part of bringing reading, writing, and arithmetic to 250 million kids.

    picture of an african girl with a tablet

    XPRIZE has launched the Global Learning XPRIZE to incentivize teams to create tablet-based Open Source software that will teach a child to read, write, and perform arithmetic, fully autonomously. The impact of this technology is to bring literacy to over 250 million children around the world. Give a child the gift of literacy.

    Do you think GCompris has something to bring and should participate. Do you have ideas on how to reach this goal? Join the GCompris developer mailing list and tell us, we need your feedback, we need you.

    2014-06-10 

    GCompris coding session in the Alps

    GCompris is now officially a KDE application. As such, our development community is proud to participate for the first time to the KDE Randa meeting. This is an excellent opportunity for the GCompris developers to meet in real life and get in touch with experienced KDE developers. Please consider making a donation to help us finance this development sprint.
    2014-06-01 

    Major fixes

    • Exclude known symbol fonts from the font selector
    • Now the python path separator is ';' on windows. Before that it was not possible to install GCompris on another disk drive on Windows (other than C:)
    • Added missing timer images (the balloon) in the multiplication table activity.

    Translation update

    • Updated Russian translation by Yuri Myasoedov
    • Updated Greek translation by Yannis Kaskamanidis
    • Updated french translation by Bruno Coudoin
    • Updated Norwegian bokmål translation by Erlend Thune
    Just a little video showing a gimpse of our progress on the port of GCompris in Qt Quick. So far we already have 44 activities on the 144. We now have a configuration dialog box and a menu similar to the old version.
    2014-03-29 

    Major feature

    • Added support for multigraph languages in click_on_letter by GunChleoc.
    • Added a font selector in the config dialog box by Bruno Coudoin. This feature replaces the skin selector. Removed the skin gartoon as it is useless now.

    Minor changes

    • Replaced torta py pastel in Spanish text exercise
    • Added support for localized sound by GunChleoc. The 'yummy yummy' gnumch voice can now be translated in voices/$LOCALE/misc/eat.wav
    • Added a cute background to hexagon by Bruno Coudoin. The background comes from openclipart.org.
    • Updated FSF's address by Daniel Mustieles.
    • Geography, fixed reference to sri_lanka.ogg by Bruno Coudoin.
    • Hangman, added missing word files by Bruno Coudoin. The Scottish Gaelic word list was not installed. Added a French word list. Fixed support for accentuated letters. The code that also check for accentuated letter in the word to find was broken.
    • Fixed administration to accept UTF-8 user entries by Bruno Coudoin.
    • Fixed login by text entry by Bruno Coudoin.
    • Fixed admin log list, user 0 was missing by Bruno Coudoin.
    • Fixed a typo in the help ctrl-x is now ctrl-q by Bruno Coudoin.
    • Awale activity, fixes some bugs especially party end by Nicolas Adenis-Lamarre.
    • Leftright, fixed manual. better button name for translation by Bruno Coudoin.
    • Fixed wartercycle and hydroelectric activity click events by Hans de Goede.
    • Added bonus files from gartoon skin by Bruno Coudoin.
    • Changed default skin as gartoon, babytoy has been removed
    • Windows installer, fixed image format by Bruno Coudoin.
    • Config dialog layout change to make more room for texts by Bruno Coudoin.
    • Lang, fixed 'back to last level' mode by Bruno Coudoin. Fixed call to bonus so that we properly log success to each exercise.
    • Lang, fixed startup sequence in remember level mode by Bruno Coudoin. The ready button was bypassed in remember level mode.
    • Lang, fixed a python exec error case by Bruno Coudoin. If we have an error in the startup sequence a variable was used non initialized.
    • Lang activity, replaced http://laske.fr/abecedarium/ by our own online version at http://gcompris.net/activity/lang (global replace in the code and the translations).
    • Administration, layout improvement by Bruno Coudoin. the module labels was too large. replaced them by tooltips.
    • Change back our licence file to properly report GPLV3+
    • Fixed selection of internal gnuchess by default by Cosimo Cecchi
    • click-on-letter, added french accentuated letters.
    • gnumch, fixed localization of eat.wav. A localize eat.wav can be provided in voices/$LOCALE/misc/eat.wav

    Translation update

    • Fixed Russian translation by Stas Solovey.
    • Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation by Adorilson Bezerra.
    • Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation by Enrico Nicoletto.
    • Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation by Rafael Ferreira.
    • Updated Czech translation by Marek Černocký.
    • Updated Danish translation by Joe Hansen.
    • Updated Dutch translation master by Herman van Beem.
    • Updated French translation by Bruno Coudoin.
    • Updated Galician translation by Gonçalo Cordeiro
    • Updated German translation by Christian Kirbach.
    • Updated Greek translation by Yannis Kaskamanidis.
    • Updated Hungarian translation by Gabor Kelemen
    • Updated Lithuanian translation by Aurimas Černius.
    • Updated Scottish Gaelic translation by GunChleoc.
    • Updated Serbian translation by Мирослав Николић.
    • Updated Spanish translation by Daniel Mustieles.
    • Updated Spanish translation by Milagros Alessandra Infante Montero.
    • Updated Spanish translation by Rafael Ferreira
    • Updated russian word list by Mayya Sharipova.
    • Updated word list for gd by GunChleoc.
    • Updated English voice by Philip Morris and Julia Wycherley
    2014-02-09 

    I have been particularly discreet for several months. It is not a sign of disinterest in this project, quiet the opposite.

    In fact as you imagine, many users are requesting us a tablet version of GCompris and I tried to evaluate the different technical possibilities to bring GCompris to this world. Sadly, Gtk+ the core technology we are based on does not provide any easy way to run on tablet.

    The main requirements for me was to be able to have a single code base that would let us target the main desktops and the main tablets.

    After looking at different options, I settled on Qt Quick. It is a modern toolkit based on a novative descriptive language called QML that let you describe the user interface, javascript that complement it to code the game logic. It is also possible to develop the non graphical part of the application in C++ with Qt.

    It is based on an OpenGL scene graph, we can create shader and particles to make graphical effects and do smooth animations.

    In order to validate this choice, I did a prototype and this convinced me that it was a pertinent choice for GCompris. Even if this is a new technology, the learning curve is acceptable, with very few code you can create a very good looking activitiy. In my test it takes about half the lines of code to make the same activity in Qt Quick than we used to in Python and we get a better graphical quality.

    The bad news is that it is not compatible with the current version of GCompris and it requires a full rewrite. All we can keep is the game logic and tuning, the texts, the translations, the graphics and the sounds.

    I just published the GCompris-qt version on GitHub and updated our development page to give some starting points to build it yourself.

    For those who don't want to compile it, you can look at the little video.

    Another important point, since this is not based on Gtk+ this new version cannot be hosted by Gnome as we used to do. Therefore we cannot participate in the Google Summer of Code under the Gnome umbrella. I thus registered GCompris for this year session of GSoC and Frederico Goncalves Guimaraes accepted to be the official co-mentor.

    If you are interested in helping GCompris, I encourage you to learn Qt Quick and to help port some activities. This is a good opportunity to learn a new technology while doing something useful. I still have to refine and document the process to create a new activity but it is not very complex.

    GCompris on Gtk+ has been around for 14 years. It is true that the migration will take time, probably several years but this is something we have to do if we want to stay relevant in the coming years.

    Bruno.

    2013-11-04 

    Major features

    • A new activity in the reading section that presents a set of image, text and voice to children and an exercise set around them. This includes about 1000 images and voices in English, Spanish, French, and Gaelic-Scottish. The images and voices come from the Art4Apps project, a big thanks to them for providing a such useful resource (under CC BY-SA). If you want to thanks Art4Apps for their hard work please consider making a donation on their site.
    • If you want to have a look at what this new activity is about, you can play it online.
    • A rework of many text related activities to support multigraph languages. This is driven by a team of Gaelic-Scottish users.
    • Added the font face use in GCompris in the skin configuration file. It is possible to select another font by manually changing it with one installed on your system. For example, In boards/skin/babytoy/skin.xml find the line "font id="gcompris/fontface" name="sans" and replace "sans" by "ruluko". Ruluko is a font provided by Google under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 designated to aid those learning to read. In the future selecting the font should be made available at the configuration level.

    Bug fixes

    • By popular demand, there is now a simplified version of the submarine activity, now there is an easy first level. Added tooltips to explain items.
    • Fixed a crash case after leaving intro and land_safe activity.
    • New country map of Scotland by Fòram na Gàidhlig.
    • Fixed colors values in the advanced color activity. This page reports the old and new value.
    • Added support for remembering last passed level by Roopesh Shenoy. With this option when the children enters an activity the last succeeded level is proposed.
    • Added Central America and Oceania geography map by GunChleoc
    • Independent wordlist for reading activities by GunChleoc
    • Now the intro voice is played when help is clicked.
    • Fixed a bug which makes the administration menu missing
    • Translations

      Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Breton, Czech, Danish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Serbian Latin, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Tamil.

      Look at the translation status here.

    2013-09-14 

    Our web site was ten years old, a major refresh was more than needed.

    This new one is no more based on a CMS engine but is coded in python with the jinja2 template engine and generated statically.

    The site is now generated on the fly including the screenshots pages. Very important, the new site translation is managed through po files like the GCompris code base making it easier for translators to localize the web site.

    The source of the site can be found on github here

    A few month ago a developer team made an iOS port of GCompris. They just made another port, this time for Android. It is available under the name 'yellow duck' on Google Play.

    The code is under GPL but you have to ask them to get the source, there is no public repository.

    There are a lot of activities, sadly many are not enough polished as we may expect but what this team did is impressive.

    I am glad to announce that a small developper team made a clone of some GCompris activities running on iOS (Apple iPhone / iPad). It is named 'Yellow Duck'.

    It works like GCompris on Windows, you can dowload it for free and perform an in app purchase to access all the activities.

    Of course, as they use the resources in GCompris that are for most under GPL, their software is also released under GPL.

    2012-11-01 

    The GCompris development team is happy to propose you a new version of GCompris numbered 12.11. This release includes 13 new activities, probably more than any release of GCompris so far.

    GCompris is a popular high quality educational software suite comprising of numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10.

    And when we say multi-activities, we really mean a lot. We now have 136 activities in GCompris!

    I would like to give a special thanks to Gnome and Google for their support in allowing us to have two students working three months full time on GCompris last summer.

    Here is a summary of the new activities sorted by contributors:

    Beth Hadley

    • Learn about farm animals, what sounds they make, and interesting facts
    • Learn about world animals, interesting facts and their location on a map
    • Learn about the music of the world
    • Learn the names of the notes, in bass and treble clef, with the help of sounds and colors
    • An activity to learn how the piano keyboard works, how notes are written on a musical staff and explore music composition by loading and saving your work
    • Learn to play melodies on the piano keyboard!
    • Learn to listen to, read, and play musical rhythms

    Clément Coudoin

    • Geography, new asia map level

    Peter Albrecht

    • Use the mouse wheel to approach the rock wall an look for gold nuggets

    Matilda Bernard

    • To understand color mixing
    • Understanding mixing of colors of light
    • Introduction to the concept of gravity. Maintain the spaceship in the middle without crashing into the planets or the asteroids
    • Understanding acceleration due to gravity. Pilot the spaceship towards the green landing area
    • Understanding effect of mass and distance on orbital velocity

    Jozef Riha

    • Added Slovak voive set

    Philip Morris and Julia Wycherley

    • Updated English voices

    And thanks a lot to our translators

    • Alexandre Franke: French translation
    • Andrej Žnidaršič: Updated Slovenian translation
    • Aurimas Černius: Updated Lithuanian translation
    • Chris Leonard: Updated Russian translation
    • Christian Kirbach: Updated German translation by Peter Albrecht
    • Daniel Mustieles: Updated Spanish translation
    • Dominik Granada: Updated Polish translation
    • Fran Diéguez: Updated Galician translations
    • Frederico Goncalves Guimaraes: Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation
    • Gabor Kelemen: Updated Hungarian translation
    • Gonçalo Cordeiro: Updated Galician translations
    • Marek Černocký: Updated Czech translation
    • Martin Srebotnjak: Updated Slovenian translation
    • Matej Urbančič: Updated Slovenian translation
    • Michal Kaukič: Updated slovak translation
    • Piotr Drąg: Updated Polish translation
    • Sasi Bhushan Boddepalli: Updated Telugu Translation
    • Tirumurti Vasudevan: Updated Tamil translation
    • Yannis Kaskamanidis: Updated Greek translation
    • Yuri Myasoedov: Updated Russian translation
    • Мирослав Николић: Updated Serbian translation
    2012-07-08 

    Who said GCompris does not run on tablet ?

    You don’t imagine the number of people complaining the GCompris does not run on tablet, phone and tv. It is way too much work to port it. I am glad to show the world that choosing the proper hardware, developers don’t have to recode everything.

    Look at the video here.

    2012-06-10 

    The release 12.05 is mostly a maintenance release, no new activities have been included. Many bug fixes and translation updates.

    Beth Hadley:

    • Louis_braille activity: fixed a wrong fact

    Bruno Brouard:

    • Updated French translation

    Bruno Coudoin:

    • Management of sounds in the bar. removed the bleep and play the level in interrupt mode.
    • Wordsgame: fixed hungarian word dataset, the level 2 was missing. It made reading activities crashing in Hungarian.
    • Braille_alphabets: fixed level with numbers, was generating a python error.
    • Geo_country: added India by Matilda Bernard
    • Wordgame: improved the hungarian list of words by Somlai István
    • Geo_country: added Australia by Matilda Bernard
    • Geography: fixed reference to audio files for sudan and congo.
    • Geography activity: fixed naming of burkina to always be 'burkina faso'
    • Geography-activity: fixed the name of antartica to be properly spelled as antarctica.
    • Instrument activity: fixed wrong instrument bass drum was really a snare drum.
    • Lang activity: reworked the number level using images from wikicommons.
    • Lang activity: inprogress, added many images.
    • Lang activity: now play the sounds in interrupt mode, better user experience.
    • Lang activity: added hightlighs on buttons.
    • Instruments activities: fixed makefiles.
    • Core: fixed the command line option --difficulty which was not working.
    • Core: added the command line option --disable-database
    • Electric: cleanup, removed unused image.
    • Electric: added a red led. replaces the diode.
    • Electric: fixed a simulation issue. there was a missing recalculation when a component blows up.
    • Electric: now each wire is draw with a random color.
    • Administration: performance improvement in board selection / deselection
    • Core: in case no activities are selected display a nice error message.
    • Windows build: upgraded to gtk+-bundle_2.24.10-20120208
    • Core: size optimization of all png images with optipng -o7 (30MB size reduction)
    • Merge branch 'git://git.sugarlabs.org/alsroot/gcompris.git' for Sugar
    • Tools: added a tool to display the list of missing voices of a given language.
    • Tools: Improved gimp script foo by Angel Ivan Moreno
    • Animation activity: fixed the implementation of the z order management.
    • Windows: upgraded to gtk+-bundle_2.24.10-20120208 This fixes an issue in which users on Windows XP with a 16 bits display color depth could not start GCompris.

    Translations updates

    • Chao-Hsiung Liao: Updated Traditional Chinese translation
    • Christian Kirbach: Updated German translation
    • Claude Paroz, Bruno Brouard: Updated French translation
    • Daniel Mustieles: Updated Spanish translation
    • Fran Diéguez: Updated Galician translations
    • Frederico Goncalves Guimaraes: Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation
    • Gabor Kelemen: Updated Hungarian translation by Istvan Somlai.
    • Jiro Matsuzawa: Updated Japanese translation
    • Joe Hansen: Updated Danish translation
    • Karl Ove Hufthammer: Updated Norwegian Nynorsk translation.
    • Lavanya gunasekaran: core: no more crash if we fail to write to the database.
    • Marek Černocký: Updated Czech translation
    • Matej Urbančič, Martin Srebotnjak: Updated Slovenian translation
    • Matilda Bernard: Geo_country: added china countries.
    • Mike Karfunkle: Drawnumber activity; now the dots are in random orders each time we play this activity.
    • OKANO Takayoshi: Update Japanese translation
    • Praveen Arimbrathodiyil: Gcompris Malayalam translations updated
    • Translation updates from Sadiq
    • Shreya Menon: Wordprocessor activity: added support for setting hyperlinks
    • Sowmya Ravidas: Money activity: the bonus lost is now displayed in case the children click ok and the answer it wrong.
    • Yannis Kaskamanidis: Updated Greek translation
    • Мирослав Николић: Updated Serbian translation
    • Marco Menardi: Italian voices: voice set has been cleaned (removed noises).
    • Philip Morris: English voices: Julia Wycherley sent us some updated voices.
    • Gabor Kelemen: New Hungarian intro sound files from Istvan Somlai
    • Rūdolfs Mazurs: Added latvian translation
    • Alexander Shopov: Updated Bulgarian translation
    2012-01-09 

    Bug fixes

    • Windows installer: fixed a potential directory erasing at uninstall or reinstall time. Properly erase all our files at unistallation time
    • Windows: updated the compilation chain for windows to compile against GTK 2.24
    • Desktop entry: Added the Education category
    • Compilation: Added ifdefs to compile with gdkpixbuf > 2.24 by Hans de Goede
    • Guessnumber: fixed a potential crash at exit time. Give focus on the entry box.
    • Braille fun: added audio feedback.
    • Braille alphabet: improved to audio play the letter to find
    • Baille lotto: fixed not to go back to the main menu at the end. Improved it a little bit the layour to accomodate with longer translated text. Added sound effects.
    • Shapegame: Fixed a random crash in shapegame activities that happened while dragging a piece. Minor, now clicking on the left/right image selector does not trig the ok check.
    • findit: Fixed to run on Windows 7
    • clockgame: the first levels now highlight the hour sectors to make them easier to recognize and to teach. (By Angelo Naselli)
    • Instruments activity: added a check for sound availability in the icon menu. Now the background music is muted when entering this activity.
    • Memory: minor fix in memory activity to fix their reference to their mandatory audio file. Without this, a little audio error does appear at run time in the activity icon.

    Translations updates

    • Updated Estonian translation by Olle Niit
    • Updated Serbian translation by Мирослав Николић
    Sadly, GCompris was not working at all on Windows Seven. I just made a new binary version (gcompris-11.12-2.exe) that fixes the problem.
    2011-11-20 

    Improvements

    • wordlist in Spanish: added more words to the spanish list. By Germana Oliveira.

    Bug fixes

    • Updated French translation, there was a string with the text being there twice causing the gnumch activity to have the text over sized and unreadable.
    • By Hans de Goede rsvg: fixed deprecated issue releated to rsvg. wordsgame: manage depracation of the g_mutex_lock versus g_static_mutex_lock cleanup, replaced deprecated g_strcasecmp by g_ascii_strcasecmp wordsgame activity: fixed race conditions
    • minor: made bigger icons to avoid pixelized icon in desktop task switchers.
    • hangman: unsupported locale in GCompris was making this activity crash. Fixes bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=662576
    • core: now handle the ’C’ locale as en_US Currently a ’C’ locale was interpreted in GCompris by Catalan.

    Translations updates

    • Updated Albanian translation by Abdulsalem Osmani
    • Fixed spelling mistake in Norwegian Nynorsk by Karl Ove Hufthammer
    • Updated Greek translation for gcompris by Yannis Kaskamanidis
    • Updated Slovenian translation by Matej Urbančič
    • Updated Czech translation by Marek Černocký
    • Updated German translation by Mario Blättermann
    • Updated Turkish translation by Muhammet Kara
    • Updated Spanish translation by Daniel Mustieles
    • Updated Spanish translation by Daniel Mustieles
    2011-09-25 

    New Activities

    • A set of activities to discover the Braille system. They have been made by Srishti Sethi this summer (part of the Gnome Summer of Code):
    • The history of Louis Braille
    • Discover the Braille system
    • Training using a funny game, like falling letters but with Braille
    • Braille lotto to remember Braille numbers.
    • click on letter uppercase: same as click on letter but with only upper case. Now the old activity ’click on letter’ poposes only lower case.

    Activity updates

    • erase activity: added new animals from picture by Adrien Grellier and Claire Gegout from their Antarctic trip.
    • shapegame activities: now we display the ok button when all shapes are placed even with errors We also show a red cross indicating the children errors. Thanks to Arnaud Limon for the suggestion. Fixed a potential crash when a piece was overwritten by another in their wrong position.
    • Changed the combo locale system to display the language in their textual form instead of their locale code. Maintain them sorted to make it even easier to use. Now activites with locale configuration use this feature.
    • Mostly full rewrite of the click on letter activity to allow a specific configuration per language and per user. Now this activity takes a desktop formated file as input. It contains for each level the questions and answers charaters to propose. This file can be edited in the game through the config button, in this case a local data file is save under the user’s My GCompris folder and is reused. Now for each country we must provide a data file, this is much better than before where it was fully random and was not respecting the natural difficulties of a language. If this file is missing we create the level automatically from the alphabet (or from the english one for Latin based alphabet) now display the text of the question if we cannot play it for any reason which makes this activity playable even if we don’t have the voice set or the sound is disabled. Also if one letter is missing from the voice set it remains playable. Improved the graphism. based on an openclipart image. Splitted click on letter in two activities, on with lowercase one with uppercase as suggested by Sylvain Dechy.
    • memory sound activity: the tux band background image with the bsd devil is considered offensive in some country. Now the bsd devil looks less like a devil and more like a red little boy.
    • wordsgame activity: changed the text color of the falling words to be back and white I found out that reading text in color other than black and white is very hard.
    • In login.py and tuxpaint, reactivated the config button that was missing.
    • memory activity: fixed several potential crash cases when the memory was run with sound disabled.
    • Now in the hangman, we display the name of the current language.
    • Advanced color activity: fixed color names not to include _ when composed of 2 names.
    • Fixed the 2 click drag mode ( run it with gcompris -g 2clicks).
    • findit: no more ask several times a missing answer at the end of the level
    • geo-country activity: added the italian country map with 3 sub levels, north, central and south.
    • bar: added the keyboard shortcut ctrl-b do hide/show the GCompris control bar. Now when changing the level, the sound is played before starting the activity in order not to flush the own activity sound.
    • advanced_color: remade this activity based on the new findit engine.
    • details-activity: Fixed the TajMahal level. References to images was wrong.

    Voices

    • New voice set for Thai by Thummarat Phromphing
    • English voices: new recordset of our english voices by Julia Wycherley with the help of Philip Morris.

    We have 2 students working on GCompris this summer as part of the Google Summer of Code 2011. This year for the first time I proposed GCompris as a project and myself as a mentor.

    Srishti will be working on adding activities to let non blind children discover the blind world by learning the Braille code.

    Karthik will let our children discover the music world, an important domain in which GCompris is weak.

    2011-04-03 

    This is a bug fix release that includes the following changes:

    • submarine: Reworked it deeply. It had several stability issues. At the same time, improved the graphism a little bit. Fixed major crash in submarine that arrived when the children won.
    • click and draw: Fixed, it was not starting at all.
    • renewable energy: On some system the wind farm was taking too much CPU.
    2011-03-05 

    New features

    • Added 2 new activities to learn to give money make in a shop. This is based on the money activity but now the children must give back money to Tux.
    • Now the erase activity reads the .jpg file in its data directory instead of being hardcoded. In the erase activity we have a large number of animal backgrounds. Now these are found at run time instead of being hard coded. Also the user can add its own images in the directory /My GCompris/erase. Added more animal images taken from wikipedia.
    • New renewable energy activity. Learn about electric dam, wind farm and solar panels works. This is heavily based on the watercycle activity.
    • In money activity, we no more auto check the answer, there is now an OK button Created 3 price categories in money activtiy to make the game more realistic. As suggested by Arnaud Champollion, it is just too easy for the children.
    • improved the drawnumber activity to have its dataset taken from a file instead of hardcoded. Now we have a text file named activity.txt that contains the images and points coordinate. converted .png files in .jpg in drawnumber activity to save disk space.

    Bug Fixes

    • In the submarine activity, we now destroy and reset the frigate motion when we enter the help. Not doing so makes the children loose the game while reading the manual.
    • Added a reset button for the locale in the configuration dialog. It is now easier to get back on the default locale. Sorted the locales following their english name instead of the locale code
    • Deadlock occurs if new playback is scheduled from callback. Observed with sound-memory activity, while playing ’bonus’. In this fix, the sound is player in the gtk idle loop instead of being called directly (Fixed by Andreas Fenkart)
    • Major random crash fix. In python activity, a call to gcompris.skin.svg_get() was freeing the skin object but it should not. This resulted in random crashes at any point in GCompris when trying to read the skin svg_handle.
    • Fixed code to compile with the -Werror=unused-but-set-variable gcc new compilation flag.
    • Fixed invisible cursor on 64 bits systems. The propoerty struct is now properly initialized even on 64 bits systems. Fixed by Peter Ujfalusi.
    • Watercycle activity: Added toolips to explain the different items. Fixed a minor race issue. Added a bonus flower feedback in watercycle to let the children knows he completed the level. Thanks to Clara Coudoin for the feedback, it is great to have close beta testers.
    • Added missing image files for money activity.
    • Added missing activity files for drawnumber.
    • String updates, requested translation for paintings. As reported by Friedel Wolff: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=636887
    • Cleanup, removed unused concept of activity board_dir This concept is no more use. Now we use the concept of a global package_data_dir found in the properties.

    Translations updates

    • Added Montenegrin translation by Montenegro Consulting Company by Montenegro Consulting Company
    • Added Slovenian translation by Matej Urbančič
    • Much longer word list for Norwegian Nynorsk. by Karl Ove Hufthammer
    • New word list for Czech by Marek Černocký by Bruno Coudoin
    • Updated Czech translation by Marek Cernocky by Petr Kovar
    • Updated Arabic translation by Khaled Hosny
    • Updated Arabic translation by Khaled Hosny
    • Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation by Frederico Gonçalves Guimarães
    • Updated Czech translation by Marek Černocký
    • Updated Czech translation by Marek Černocký
    • Updated Danish translation by Joe Hansen
    • Updated Danish translation by Joe Hansen
    • Updated Esperanto translation by Kristjan SCHMIDT
    • Updated French translation by Claude Paroz
    • Updated Galician translations by Fran Diéguez
    • Updated Galician translations by Gonçalo Cordeiro
    • Updated German translation by Christian Kirbach
    • Updated Greek translation by Yannis Kaskamanidis
    • Updated Hungarian translation by Gabor Kelemen
    • Updated Norwegian Nynorsk translation (still some missing strings). by Karl Ove Hufthammer
    • Updated Slovenian translation by Andrej Žnidaršič
    • Updated Spanish translation by Daniel Mustieles
    • Updated Spanish translation by Sylvia Sánchez
    • Updated Swedish translation by Daniel Nylander
    • Updated Swedish translation by Daniel Nylander
    • Updated Swedish translation by Daniel Nylander
    • Updated Traditional Chinese translation(Hong Kong and Taiwan) by Chao-Hsiung Liao
    • Updated asturian translation by Xandru Armesto
    • Updated breton translation by Alan Monfort
    • Updated translation and added new word list for Afrikaans (af) by Friedel Wolff
    • Updated German translation by Mario Blättermann
    • Updated Russian translation by Yuri Myasoedov
    • New translation for Zulu by Priscilla Mahlangu
    Warning: Due to a last minute packaging issue, this release has been re-issued under the number 9.5.

    Major changes

    • Fixed level 8 of babyshapes. The makefile was missing all the images for this level. I reworked the files so that they lie in the resource directory instead of subdirectories.
    • New hangman activity. Icon is a a modified one from Mathieu’s icon set. The cute background is based on a drawing Franck Doucet made for our bargame activity. This activity uses our default-.xml files to propose words to the children. It is thus very important now to have them properly filled. For now I did the work for English and French. Translators, please refer to this page for instructions
    • Added details activity by Marc Levivier. In the spirit of famous painting discovery, in this activity the painting is complete and the children must put painting parts on the right places.
    • New feature in the chat activity. The user has a shared white boards now. This has been developped by Fionn Ziegler.
    • First release of an in progress tool that converts wiktionary xml dumps in an xml file. For now, it works only for French, this page tracks the progress. The idea behind this is to get an xml formatted dictionnary to create new activities in the reading / writing area. For now this is just not used in GCompris.
    • In planegame now the numbers are spoken when the plane hit the correct cloud.
    • Added missing configuration button in several activites where it makes sense. Now teachers / children can set force uppercase in click on letter, falling wards, falling letter, horizontal/vertical reading. Thanks to Luciana from sleducacional.org
    • Added missing level for photohunter by Marc Levivier
    • Added the option —disable-level. Some teacher want to be sure the children don’t skip a level.
    • Now the click on letter activity can be played also with the keybord. This has been suggested by Sini Ruohomaa.
    • Fixed reference to tuxpaint dataset. Now we display saved tuxpaint images in our image selector again. Thanks to the person in Latinoware 2010 who reported me that this feature has been lost.
    • The configuration of the ’missing letter’ activity was not working for UTF-8 multibyte characters (bugzilla). Added a tooltip to better explain the different fields.
    • Refined the sudoku’s level for scholl usage (By Sylvain Dechy).
    • Changed the difficulty level of the maze activity to make it more usable in classrooms. (By Sylvain Dechy)

    Voices

    New voice set for Slovenian by Saša Batistič

    Translations

    As for each release, many translation have been updated

    • Alan Monfort (br)
    • Aleksey Lim (es)
    • Andrej Žnidaršič (sl)
    • Bruno Brouard (fr)
    • Christian Kirbach (de)
    • Fran Diéguez (gl)
    • Frederico Goncalves Guimaraes (pt_BR)
    • Gabor Kelemen (hu)
    • Giannis Kaskamanidis (el)
    • Gonçalo Cordeiro (gl)
    • Inaki Larranaga Murgoitio (eu)
    • Joe Hansen (da)
    • Jorge González (es)
    • Karl Ove Hufthammer (nn)
    • Mantas Kriaučiūnas (lt)
    • Marek Černocký (cs)
    • Mario Blättermann (de)
    • Petr Kovar (cs)
    • Reuma Mordechai (he)
    • Xandru Armesto (ast)
    • Yannis Kaskamanidis (el)
    picture of the sleducational group with bruno picture of the sleducational group with bruno

    Back from Latinoware in Brazil, it was a great experience for me to go that far and discover how much GCompris is appreciated.

    I met the organisation sleducational.org which is focused on free software in education and driven by teachers. They are making a great job in explaining how free software can be used in day to day training. They know pretty well GCompris since Frederico, the team leader, is also the translator of GCompris in Brazilian Portuguese.

    To me, it is an excellent news to see an organisation taking our work further and providing a local support to teachers in Brazil looking for educational tools.

    Also, I got a lot of feedback and this is mandatory to make sure we continue to be focused on the needs of our users.

    And of course it gave me a lot of new ideas for GCompris, just need to find some time to code, hopefully when the release 9.4 will be released.

    PS: The mug offered by sleducacional to Bruno.

    2010-10-10 

    I will be in Brazil at Latinoware 2010 from the 10th to the 12th of November.

    It will be a pleasure to meat you there and discuss about the future of GCompris.

    2010-04-27 

    This version is a minor update of the 9.2. The main new feature is that we now distribute a MacOSX version (Intel 10.4 and above).

    Minor changes

    • Fixed superbrain by Julian Gilbey. In some case the proposesed solution was wrong. This is a long lasting bug.
    • Added support for MacOSX 10.4 Intel.
    • Updated icons to reflect latest art work.
    • Removed flags from GCompris. Flags create political issue. There is not always a clear relationship between a country flag and a language.
    • Fixed a typo in sudoku tutorial.
    • Improved graphism new skins babytoy by Cabaraux Stephane.
    • Improved many graphism (connect4, ballcatch) by Cabaraux Stephane.
    • Added a copy of gnome-gnuchess internally since the regular gnuchess crashes on macosx. This is activated only on MacOSX.
    • Fixed missing translation request for the "Yes I Saw it" string in the reading activity.
    • Workaround for the fullscreen mode on macosx. now set a huge max ratio hint when fullscreen is set.
    • Added an ongoing progress status at GCompris startup. This is used to avoid the long delay at startup without user feedback.
    • Fixed the audio tooltip in the bar.
    • Fixed a segfault in the GCompris dialog box.
    • New activity lights off by Bruno and Clement Coudoin. Added more simple levels in lightsoff.
    • More art work content for photohunter activity Contributed by Marc Levivier Based on paintings by Le Douanier Rousseau.
    • Improved wordsgame activity to support language selection.
    • Fixed score counting in advanced color
    • Now we give 4 chances at each sublevel. After that the sublevel restarts.
    • Fixed redraw activity, several level was impossible to complete. There was many colors in the image target that was impossible to do.
    • Fixed SDL audio backend to allow playing with effects and no backgroundd music.
    • Fixed usa map due to missing rhode island.

    Translations added

    • Added Traditional Chinese by Chao-Hsiung Liao
    • Added asturian translation by Xandru Armesto Fernandez

    Translations updated

    • Updated French translation by Zohra Coudoin.
    • Updated Arabic translation by Khaled Hosny
    • Update Chinese (Simplified) translation by Ray Wang
    • Updated Galician translations by Fran Dieguez
    • Updated Greek translation for gcompris by Yannis Kaskamanidis
    • Update Czech translation by Marek Cernocky
    • Updated Spanish translation by Jorge Gonzalez
    • Updated German translation by Mario Blattermann
    • Updated Norwegian Nynorsk translation by Karl Ove Hufthammer
    • Updated Greek translation for gcomprixogoo by Yannis Kaskamanidis
    • Updated Basque translation by Inaki Larranaga
    • Updated Czech translation by Marek Cernocky
    • Updated Swedish translation by Daniel Nylander
    • Updated Slovenian translation by Andrej Znidarsic
    • Updated russian translation by Slava Dubrovskiy
    2010-02-13 

    New feature

    • Created a new U.S.A map for our geography activity
    • Completed the Windows port. Now use the cute GCompris cursor. Fixed SDL audio back-end

    Fixed bugs

    • Fixed geography activities. Many dot where missing, hidden by the background.
    • Fixed drawn case in the chess activity, it was ending in an infinite loop.
    • Improved a little bit the layout in the penalty activity.
    • Replaced the yellow by white the text color of the score.
    • Now the text dialog is centered in the height.
    • Added an API entry to get the current cursor. This allow the help dialog to get the previous cursor, set the default one and change again to the caller one in the end.
    • In erase activity, the sponge cursor is setback when exiting the pause state. This allow the about box to set the default cursor which is more suitable.
    • In the menu, the display of the description is now centered. Minor change, better layout.
    • In python, now import sqlite3 instead of pysqlite2 For backyard compatibility, there is a fall back to sill import pysqlite2.
    • Added a missing background to the simple color activity It is based on the artwork of Mathieu Ignacio (from the target activity.)
    • Fixed algebra activity to report the level properly.
    • Better error checking in case the database cannot be loaded or created. Before that patch, a failure was exiting the startup sequence without warning the user Now, in case we cannot load the database of cannot created it we follow the procedure: - rename the database under the name gcompris_db.broken - recreate it from scratch - we failed again, fall back in no database mode.

    Translation

    • Updated Arabic translation by Khaled Hosny
    • Updated Greek translation by Yannis Kaskamanidis
    • Updated Greek translation by Yannis Kaskamanidis
    • Updated Hungarian translation updated by Gabor Kelemen
    • Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation by Frederico Goncalves Guimaraes
    • Updated Russian translation by Андрей Черепанов
    • Updated Swedish translation by Daniel Nylander
    2010-01-26 

    In short, this release is a bug fix release of the 9.0. It is mandatory for all packager to use this one due to the large number of problems we fixed.

    You get the tarball at the usual place on Sourceforge

    If you prefer, on the git side, this comes from the ’gcomprixogoo’ branch.

    If full, the change log is:

    Core fixes

    • Added support of Sugar look and feel by Aleksey Lim
    • Now the group menus are ordered based on an embedded difficulty level so that they appear in the same order.
    • Fixes to compile with GTK 2.19 by Johan Cwiklinski
    • Removed unused import rsvg in watercycle and penalty. PACKAGERS: This mean we no more need on python-rsvg.

    Activity fixes

    • scale Added a sign on the scale The scale activity is sometimes annoying because you cannot easiliy see which side the scale goes. I added a sign < > or = on it to ease the task.
    • photo hunter Major rework of he photo hunter activity that can now detect the image difference automagically. This makes it easy to contribute new data set to this activity, just provide it 2 images having some differences. BTW, I added some more content to it. Photo hunter has been fixed to work in full screen and now has an explanation string when started
    • erase Fixed events on the canvas that where not taken in account. Now clicking beside the fish does speed them like it was before.
    • reversecount Fixed reversecount, it was not restarting on loose case. Now when the children loose he restarts the same level.
    • follow line Adapted the follow line to work on touch screen. This was reported by Ronny Standtke. Now not only the motion events are catched but also click events.
    • animation activity Added tooltip in the animation activity.
    • smallnumber Fixed a crash case in smallnumber activity. This has also been improved to avoid overlaps of dices. Fixed smallnumber2 activity regarding dice pair not close enough.
    • electricity Fixed electricity activity, image was referenced badly.
    • geography Added translation on tooltips in the geography activity.
    • missingletter Fixed missingletter crash uppon changing its locale.
    • erase double click Reintroduced the erase double click activity.
    • memory word number Fixed memory word number activity. It was broken related to translations.
    • smallnumber No more display the sublevel 11/10.
    • ball catch Added the manual in the first start of ballcatch.
    • traffic Simplified level for traffic. A contribution from a French teacher Sylvain Dechy who teaches in Hérimoncourt. This introduces a set of simplified level in the traffic activity best suited for children.
    • tuxpaint Fixed tuxpaint activity. Was completely broken.
    • memory sound Now in memory_sound activity the intro is heard.
    • melody Added an OK button to start the melody activity. This avoids the intro voice to be skipped.

    Translation updates

    • Updated Ukrainian translation by Ivan Onyshchuk
    • Updated French translation by Bruno Coudoin
    • Updated Hungarian translation by Gabor Kelemen
    • Updated Czech translation by Marek Černocký
    • Updated Simplified Chinese translation by Ray Wang
    • Updated Arabic translation by Khaled Hosny
    • Updated Afrikaans translation by Friedel Wolff
    • Updated Portuguese translation by Duarte Loreto
    • Updated Czech translation by Marek Cernocky
    • Updated Bulgarian translation by Alexander Shopov
    • Updated Brazilian Portuguese by Frederico Goncalves Guimaraes

    Voice pack

    • Several voices where not played due to name mismatch
    • Added a new Chinese voice set read out by Feng Jie and others, translated and post processed by littlebat at http://www.learndiary.com/
    2010-01-03 

    After two years of work, the GCompris development team is happy to share with you the release of the version 9.0.

    GCompris is almost 10 years old and it required some deep code restructuring. This release brings many mandatory changes to make it easier to enhance, maintain and distribute.

    The first major change has been driven by the Sugar community. On the XO there was a need to distribute the activities individually. Since the early days of GCompris, we had properly separated the core engine and the activities but the laters were shared in a single folder. Now each activity in GCompris have a single directory. This includes its code and its data (menu, icon, images, sounds, data set).

    Beside allowing per activity distribution, it is also makes it easier to contribute to GCompris, there is even an activity called pythontemplate that can be used as a starting point to create your own.

    The second major change has been to replace the old, unmaintained gnome-canvas toolkit by the more modern, Cairo based toolkit named goocanvas. This makes the rendering of GCompris much better, we now have an alpha channel and the antialiasing.

    The third change is our skin format that is now fully SVG based and uses the elements IDs. This way creating a skin can be done by editing a single file instead of 70 files.

    The last change is the image ratio (width versus height). In the old version we were using 800x600 (4/3) and could only do fullscreen by changing the screen resolution. Now, to accomodate newer monitors, we are using the 800x520 resolution which is wider. But GCompris playing area is not smaller because we managed to replace the big button bar to something more integrated. The full screen is done by rescaling ourself, you can even rescale GCompris in window mode.

    A good side effect is that GCompris can be used on big monitor and on smaller devices.

    Beside the major changes, there has been a lot of minor changes all around, it would take too many time to report all of them.

    At least, I have to mention

    • The new graphism from Stephane Cabaraux for the canal lock and water cycle activities.
    • The new photo hunter activity by Marc Le Douarain
    • More famous paintings by Marc Levivier.
    • A full rewrite of the animation activity that allows now editing previous frames at will with a time line.
    • A new mode for our scale activity where the children now learn the weight units gram and kilo by Wolfram Sang.
    • I you can see, we make a lot of work and now we need your help to report us bugs or send patches to stabilize it.

    Thanks to all the contributors and supporters of all kinds who provide help to GCompris.

    Windows users, please be patient, I will work on it as soon as the 9.0 is stabilized.

    2009-03-09 

    I would like first to apologise towards the Portuguese children and teachers who have faced the translation issue.

    A special thanks to our Gnome Portuguese translation team, Duarte Loreto and António Lima. They spent the week-end working on a rework of the translation under the pressure of the bad press we have been facing in some Portugal’s news paper.

    GCompris supports over 50 languages and its a community based effort. Yes in some case we may ship incomplete or incorrect translations. We have always considered that we need to start somewhere and that an incomplete translation is better than no translation at all. This has worked pretty well so far because once people sees that the translation is not correct they join the project to improve it.

    Over the years, the Gnome Translation team gets stronger but for historical reason I kept the bad custom to release po files myself. I now understand how wrong I was. I call again the Gnome translation team to take over the languages I still commit myself. You can find which in the po/ChangeLog file.

    So this is pretty unusual for us to be in the headline. I hope this will calm down so we can go back to what we like to do, help the children learning.

    Now the release notes for the 8.4.9

    • Fixes to compile on Ubuntu 8.10
    • Improved robustness, fixed potential crash cases
    • Miguel DE Izarra implemented a word selector. Now the teacher can easily put their own words in the reading and falling word activities.
    • Integrated several patches from Vitali Perchonok related to Right to Left languages support.
    • Matieu Ignacio: New original background for the target activity.
    • Vitali Perchonok provided several images from OpenClipart to replace ours.
    • Miguel De Izarra added support for a network mode to let teachers centralise their customisations. This save custom data in user_dir and make a content.txt (a md5sum like file) listing custom files. Simply put this files in a web server to diffuse in classroom. GCompris clients are launched with —server
    • Miquel De Izarra Added support for editing the content of the missing letter activity.
    • Fixed the empty date field in the admin section on Windows.
    • Now properly points use images in My GCompris/Images In the animation activity, the image selector will display all images from this directory.
    • gnet library is now enabled by default at compile time.
    • Voices in Punjabi by Ankit Sahai

    Translation updates

    • af.po: Created translation for Afrikaans by Friedel Wolff and Samuel Murray
    • bg.po: Updated Bulgarian translation by
    • de.po: Updated German translation
    • el.po: Updated Greek translation by Yannis Kaskamanidis
    • es.po: Updated Spanish translation
    • fr.po: Updated French translation.
    • he.po: Updated Hebrew translation by Jorge Mariano.
    • hu.po: Translation updated.
    • ka.po: Updated Georgian translation by Gia Shervashidze.
    • nn.po: Updated Norwegian Nynorsk by Karl Ove Hufthammer
    • pa.po: Updated Punjabi translation by Ankit Sahai
    • pt.po: Updated Portuguese translation by Duarte Loreto and António Lima
    • pt_BR.po: Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation.
    • sv.po: Updated Swedish translation.
    • ta.po: Tamil Translation updated by Tirumurthi Vasudevan