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Contact

This page is about the Qt version. Follow there for the Gtk+ legacy version.

How to report a bug

To fill a bug report for GCompris:

Mailing list

You can join and browse the GCompris mailing list.

This mailing list is used by the developers and users willing to stay aware of what’s going on. You will get new release announcements. Users can join the list and report bugs, discuss feature they would like to have, ...

The language is English. There is also a user mailing list in French and in Portuguese. If you want to create a user list in your language, please contact me (bruno.coudoin@gcompris.net).

Chat

You can enter in contact with the users and developers of GCompris on IRC. The server is irc.freenode.net on the channel #gcompris.

To join an IRC server, you can use the excellent hexchat software or directly in your browser.

Development

Documentation of the Qt Quick Version (Under development)

This is a new version of GCompris based on the Qt Quick technology. Our users expect us to deliver a version that runs on Desktop and on Tablets. Sadly with the Gtk+ version these was no easy way to achieve this. The decision has been taken to rewrite completely GCompris on a new framework. This is a departure from the Gtk+ development framework that was based on the C and the Python language. Now the development will be done with a mix of QML, JavaScript and C++.

The rewrite will not happen overnight and we need your help. If you are interesting in discovering the Qt Quick technology while doing something useful, you can do the port of a GCompris activity.

New contributor

If you want to develop a new activity for GCompris, a good start is to follow the instructions on this page : An exercise for new contributors.

You must follow the coding guidelines described in those links:

Qt_Quick_development_process#Coding_guidelines

GSOC_newcomers#Code_quality

artwork guidelines

Always look at existing activities, and take a look at their code when you have a problem. You have to think by yourself, try and fail to find solutions. This is not a school assessment.

We can only provide limited feedback to get you started.

If you want to create a new activity, you will need to develop it by yourself. Think about making a detailed mockup, that will help you solve the main design questions, and make it easier to communicate the idea. Then, once the mockup is accepted, of course you will have to work on it. When you have a prototype of the activity almost working, then we can provide a little more help if needed.

For the graphics, if you can, try to follow the artwork guidelines from the link above. In any case, once an activity is ready, the images have to be checked and updated by our artist team.

Please use the mailing list to share your thought, problems, and wish to our community.

Note: If you plan to apply for next GSoC, please check GSOC_newcomers, and especially the last paragraph.

Design

Translation

Translations are managed by the KDE translation teams. If you would like to participate in the translation of GCompris you must contact the KDE translation team you want to participate in.

The Drawing board

These are pages to hold the different discussion for things we are working on: