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News
Latest addition: Wednesday 20 February 2008.
New in 8.4.4:
This is a major bugfixes release.
The color mosaic activity crashes when a target button is clicked.
New in 8.4.3:
This is a minor bugfixes release.
Fixed many potential crash of GCompris in the key_press activity callback.
Fixed fallback directory for english locale
Ed Montgomery created the canada region map for the geography country activity.
Voices: Now package voices files above 10, they are used by the algebra activity. Thanks Mariusz for noticing this.
Chess: The left lower corner square (a1 in algebraic notation) is now in the dark color
Translations:
Anand Kulkarni added support for Urdu including voices.
Added bulgarian voices made by Iassen Kertov
Since version 8.4, Gcompris switched to gstreamer as sound output system. Until version 0.10.15 of gstreamer-plugins-base, there was a bug when playing short vorbis encoded files.
Unfortunately, most distributions of the end of 2007 shipped with a previous version of gstreamer-plugins-base, making all Gcompris activities based on sounds of letters and numbers unusable.
If you suffer from this problem, you can either convert vorbis files in alphabet directories to wav, keeping the .ogg extension, or ask for an update of gstreamer-plugins-base to your distribution team.
As of Mandriva 2008.0, you can grab the needed files here . You will normally only need the folling one on a standard system :
gstreamer0.10-plugins-base-0.10.15-2mdv2008.0.i586.rpm
Changes from 8.3.3:
Fixed a major crash in the falling word activity.
Added Breton support (from trunk) by Alan Monfort and Victoire (voices).
Added brazil map in geography country by Elisa de Castro Guerra
In chronos, fixed missing translation by Ronny Standtke
In shape type activity (puzzles), fixed a bad offset making the placement fuzzy.
Major strucural changes, packagers please take care:
sdl_mixer replaced by gstreamer.
Switched GCompris to GPL V3 and Later.
Now all voices are in a separated svn module.
The voices must now be put under boards/voices/
To get the voices installed in the proper place, simply run: make update-voices
Re-encoded voices in a lower bitrate, saving 40MB on the tarball
Internal static gnomecanvas and libart
Bugs fixed:
Fixed "-l list" option to load the menu list from the base. Option was not working when boards are compiled statically.
Now we don’t crash if we cannot find a single image at startup.
Fixed a major bug, target activity is broken, the target never reach it’s goal.
Moved the lock file checking downstairs in the startup sequence to avoid for exemple ’gcompris -v’ to being locked.
missingletter: GCompris was asserting when you click on the target image
Chronos activity: removed hardcoded translations
doubleentry: fixed call to audio voices.
algorithm: Fixed the skip of a level after the call to the help.
shapegame:
memory: space sound 2 was twice in the list. If they were both selected in the game, the children was proposed the same sound
in 4 spot making the game bugged.
login: fixed a little bug, in text entry mode it was not displayed again if you open/close the help.
Fixed falling words for arabic
The click on letter activity was only proposing the first 4 letters of the alphabet, whatever the level.
Fixed running on machines which have / use prefix/lib64 instead of prefix/lib
Fixed concerns releated to the fullscreen mode
Fixed the gnuchess search path to accept gnome-gnuchess
Major fix, GCompris was crashing if you clicked during bonus display
New translation:
Added Afrikaans support by Samuel Murray.
Updated translation:
af Samuel Murray
ar Khaled Hosny
ar_TN Makni Bassem
bg Yavor Doganov
ca Xavier A. Conde Rueda
da Mogens Jaeger
de Ronny Standtke
dz Tshewang Norbu
el Yannis Kaskamanidis
en_GB David Lodge
es Jorge González
eu Iñaki Larrañaga Murgoitio
fr Stéphane Raimbault
hi Bruno Coudoin
id Umar Said
it Immacolata Arenga
mr Anand Kulkarni
nb Klaus Ade Johnstad
nl Reinout van Schouwen
nn Karl Ove Hufthammer
oc Yannig Marchegay
pt_BR Frederico Goncalves Guimaraes
pt Jose Jorge
sr@Latn Slobodan Simić
sr Слободан Симић
sv Daniel Nylander
th Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
vi Clytie Siddall
zh_CN Pengyong Su
New voices:
Added Serbian sounds by Mihailo and Slobodan Simic.
New Serbian voices by Mihailo and Slobodan
Major bugs have been found in GCompris 8.3.2 especially for Windows users but not only. We encourage you to upgrade to the new 8.3.3 release.
The Changelog is:
GCompris was asserting when you click on the target image in missingletter activity.
GCompris was unstable in Spanish and in any locale where we don’t have spoken congratulation (bug#463961).
Even if we have them, audio congratulation were not played on Windows.
Jozef Cerven from Slovakia has send us a major contribution. He made a new activity "Writing Tutor - Computer helps children learn to write". The concept is to help the writing by using a graphic tablet.
You can read the whole story in our wiki while the code is being integrated. It will be available in next GCompris version.
Finally, it’s time to make a new release, we really have a lot of new feature that we are happy to share with you.
Your bug reports are welcome. GCompris is huge and we cannot run all the activities, it means there maybe obvious bugs like missing image in a certain activity but we are not aware of it, that why we need your feedback.
What’s new in 8.3:
New click and draw and draw number activities by Olivier Ponchaut.
New word processor activity (Bruno)
Shapes type activities have been reworked by Miguel.
By Miguel DE IZARRA, added a 2 player mode in connect4.
Imported sounds from Tuxpaint. Many activities have now many audio effects taken from Tuxpaint.
New activity by Miguel which replaces the scale activity by a dedicated one (instead of being shape game based).
Created a new activity, a mini local chat based on multicast. It does not require a server. It does not work on Internet.
Submarine: reworked this activity to include a goal (a gate on the right and a treasure to catch to open the gate)
Added a minimal module in the admin to display the log. The module allow to filter by user, sort all columns and reset the log.
Splitted geography and geography_country
New top level icons set and bonus from Mathieu Ignacio.
searace: does instant rotation now. improved the parameters
to make it more realistic. Now a straight line won’t win all time.
Fixed skin selection
Added support for no double instance run.
Now by default GCompris won’t run again if started less than 30
seconds after a previous one.
This can be disable with —nolockcheck
The Windows version now includes the administration module.
Voices:
New Indonesian voices by Dessy Widyasar
New norwegian voices by Johnstad/Gabor
New Arabic (Tunisia) voices by Makni Bassem
Added Norwegian sounds by Johnstad/Gabor
Translation:
Added Dzongkha Translation by Pema Geyleg
Added Indonesian words by Umar Said
Added Korean Translation by Abigail Brady, Bastien Nocera, Gareth Owen
Added Occitan by Yannig MARCHEGAY
Added Tamil Translation by I. Felix by Yair Hershkovitz
Updated Arabic by Djihed Afifi
Updated Brasilian Portuguese by Frederico Gonçalves Guimarães
Updated Croatian translatio by Robert Sedak
Updated Dutch by Vincent van Adrighem
Updated English (British) translatio by David Lodge
Updated Estonian translation by Olle Niit by Priit Laes
Updated French by Claude Paroz and Jean-Pierre Ayanides
Updated Galician by Ignacio Casal Quinteiro
Updated German translation by Ronny Standtke
Updated Hebrew translation by Itzik Bereby by Yair Hershkovitz
Updated Hebrew translation by Itzik Bereby.
Updated Indonesian translation by Umar Said
Updated Italian translation by Alessio Frusciante
Updated Norwegian Nynorsk by Karl Ove Hufthammer
Updated Norwegian Bokmål by Klaus Ade Johnstad
Updated Portuguese by José Jorge
Updated Slovak translation by Marek Nagy
Updated Spanish translation by Francisco Javier F. Serrador
A.J. Venter from OpenLab in Namibia let us know about a nice comic showing GCompris in action.
If you want to know more on the major progress done in installing schools and Internet public access point in Namibia, have a look to this interview of A.J. Venter by Ofset.
A.J Venter is also the author of TappyTux, an educational free software dedicated to children.
Tangram: by Yves, from the original gtans code made by Philippe Banwarth
Mosaic: by Bruno, Rebuild the same mosaic on the right area
Guess a number: by Bruno, Tux hides a number that you must discover
Audio memory: by Yves, the hidden card memory but with sounds.