News
Hi,
We are pleased to announce the release of GCompris version 1.1.
This is a maintenance release, so every GNU/Linux distribution shipping 1.0 should update to 1.1.
Here is a summary of included changes:
On the translation side:
We have now 27 languages fully supported: Albanian, Basque, Belarusian, Brazilian Portuguese, Breton, British English, Catalan, Catalan (Valencian), Chinese Traditional, Dutch, French, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Macedonian, Malayalam, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian.
We also have 4 languages partially supported: German (91%), Irish Gaelic (87%), Lithuanian (96%) and Norwegian Nynorsk (85%).
You can find packages of this new version for GNU/Linux, Windows and MacOS on the download page. This update will be available soon in the Android Play store, the F-Droid repository and the Windows store. The package for Raspberry Pi will also be available soon.
Thank you all,
Timothée & Johnny
Hi,
To celebrate the 20 years of GCompris, we are pleased to announce the release of GCompris version 1.0.
This new version contains a new major feature: the addition of the Activity Settings menu with Dataset selection for more than 50 activities, allowing to choose more specifically what can be learned on the activities.
We also added 4 new activities:
You can find packages of this new version for GNU/Linux, Windows, MacOS and Raspberry Pi on the download page. This update will also be available soon in the Android Play store, the F-Droid repository and the Windows store. Note that the MacOS package is not notarized.
You can check on this page the voices status in your language: https://gcompris.net/voicestats/. You can help us by providing a nice recording of your voice for all the missing entries in your native language.
On the translation side, we have 22 languages fully supported: Basque, Breton, British English, Catalan, Catalan (Valencian), Chinese Traditional, Dutch, French, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Malayalam, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian.
We also have 4 languages partially supported: Belarusian (85%), Brazilian Portuguese (92%), German (89%), Lithuanian (84%).
As said in the previous news, we decided to only ship translations that are at least 80% completed to let the children have a better experience and not half translated software. Unfortunately, we had to drop the translation for: Estonian, Finnish, Irish Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hindi, Macedonian, Norwegian Nynorsk, Russian, Slovak and Chinese Simplified.
If your language is in the partially supported list, or is no more or not yet supported at all, and you want to help, please contact us (support@gcompris.net) and we will give you instructions to get started translating.
Another way to help is to write some posts in your community about GCompris, and don't hesitate to give us some feedback.
Thank you all,
Timothée & Johnny
Hi,
We are pleased to announce that the full version of GCompris is now available at no cost for every supported platform!
The installers for Windows and macOS on our website have been updated to not require activation code anymore, and the full version on the Play store and Microsoft store are now gratis.
We hope that this move will make it easier for all the children in the world to get access to the best educational software.
Thank you all,
Timothée & Johnny
Hi,
We are pleased to announce the release of GCompris version 0.97.
This new version contains 2 new activities:
And a lot of new features:
You can find packages of this new version for GNU/Linux, Windows and MacOS on the download page. This update will also be available soon in the Android Play store and the Windows store. For Raspberry Pi, we'll provide an installer soon. The updated version for iOS is still not available. Note that the MacOS package is not yet notarized, we will look at doing this during next year.
On the voices side, we added a new voice "try again" which is used in several activities instead of "check answer". You can check on this page if this voice is available in your language: https://gcompris.net/voicestats/ (in the "Misc" section). You can help us by providing a nice recording of your voice for all the missing entries in your native language.
On the translation side, we have 20 languages fully supported: Basque, Brazilian Portuguese, Breton, British English, Catalan, Chinese Traditional, Dutch, French, Galician, Greek, Italian, Macedonian, Malayalam, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian.
We also have 15 languages partially supported: Belarusian (65%), Catalan (Valencian 95%), Chinese Simplified (66%), Estonian (93%), Finnish (86%), German (96%), Hindi (73%), Hungarian (95%), Indonesian (95%), Irish Gaelic (78%), Norwegian Nynorsk (93%), Russian (76%), Scottish Gaelic (67%), Slovenian (54%), Turkish (95%).
Usually we only ship translations that are at least 80% complete. However several translations dropped way below 80% (especially Slovenian, Belarusian and Scottish Gaelic ; but also Hindi, Russian and Irish Gaelic). We decided to keep those exceptionally for this release, and hope to see former or new translators complete those translations. If we get updates or new translations, we will make a release update.
So if your language is in the partially supported list, or is not yet supported at all, and you want to help, please contact us and we will give you instructions to get started translating.
Another way to help is to write some posts in your community about GCompris, and don't hesitate to give us feedbacks.
Notes:
Thank you all,
Timothée & Johnny
Hallo,
wir freuen uns, die Veröffentlichung der Version 0.96 von GCompris bekannt zu geben.
Diese neue Version beinhaltet aktualisierte Übersetzungen für verschiedene Sprachen und ein paar Fehlerkorrekturen.
Übersetzungen, die eine große Aktualisierung erhalten haben:
Dies bedeutet, dass wir nun 19 Sprachen voll unterstützen: Britisches Englisch, Brasilianisches Portugiesisch, Bretonisch, Katalanisch, Katalanisch (Valencian), Traditionelles Chinesisch, Niederländisch, Französisch, Galicisch, Griechisch, Ungarisch, Indonesisch, Italienisch, Malayalam, Polnisch, Portugiesisch, Rumänisch, Schwedisch, Ukrainisch.
Wir haben weiterhin 15 teilweise unterstützte Sprachen: Baskisch (78%), Weißrussisch (68%), Vereinfachtes Chinesisch (69%), Estnisch (62%), Finnisch (90%), Deutsch (84%), Hindi (76%), Irisch-Gälisch (82%), Norwegisches Nynorsk (97%), Russisch (77%), Schottisch-Gälisch (70%), Slowakisch (62%), Slowenisch (56%), Spanisch (93%), Türkisch (73%).
Wir haben für diese Veröffentlichung wieder entschieden, die Übersetzungen, die unter 80% gefallen sind, aufzubewahren. Es wäre schade, wenn 10 Sprachen aus der Applikation gesperrt werden müssten, aber wenn niemand die folgenden Sprachen übersetzt, werden sie in der nächsten Veröffentlichung deaktiviert: Baskisch, Weißrussisch, Vereinfachtes Chinesisch, Estnisch, Hindi, Russisch, Schottisch-Gälisch, Slowakisch, Slowenisch, Türkisch.
Für die Windows-Version haben wir einen neuen Eintrag namens GCompris (Safe Mode) im Startmenü hinzugefügt, um im Software-Rendering-Modus zu starten. Dies war nötig, da die Auto-Erkennung der OpenGL-Unterstützung nicht zuverlässig war. Nun können Nutzer einfach zwischen OpenGL und Software-Rendering auswählen, ohne die Konfigurationsdatei zu ändern.
Bekannte Probleme:
Eine Nebenbemerkung an Ersteller von GNU/Linux-Distributionen, diese neue Version benötigt nun OpenSSL, um Stimmen und zusätzliche Bilder herunterladen zu können.
Wie immer können Sie diese neue Version von unserer Herunterladen-Seite erhalten. Sie wird ebenso zeitnah im Android und Windows Store verfügbar sein.
Dank an alle,
Timothée & Johnny
Hi,
Good news for Mac users: we finally have a new version of GCompris for OSX !
The last version of GCompris for OSX was 0.52 from 3 years ago. Since then, no one in the team could update it because of the lack of hardware. Thanks to Boudewijn from the Krita Foundation, we have now a little mac mini, old but good enough to build our packages. It took me several days of dedicated work to learn this new platform and update the build system to produce a distributable package.
This package was built and tested on OSX 10.13. If you can try it on a different OSX version, please let us know if it works.
The .dmg installer is available on the download page.
This time we decided to stop distributing it from the app-store. About the iOS version, it will take some more time before I can look at it, and we still don't have any device to test.
Notes: this package is based on GCompris version 0.95. It is built with the latest version of Qt (5.12.0) which introduced some regressions. We fixed all of those issues, but some of those fixes are only in the development version for now. A few activities are broken (checkers, braille, braille_alphabet, algorithm), but we will make a new release next month that will also address those little issues.
Thank you all,
Timothée - GCompris team
Hi,
We are pleased to announce the release of GCompris version 0.95.
This new version contains 7 new activities:
You can find packages of this new version for GNU/Linux and Windows on the download page. This update will also be available in a few days on the Android and Windows store. For Raspberry Pi, we'll provide an installer in the beginning of 2019. The updated versions for MacOS and iOS are still not available, we hope to be able to release those during next year.
On the translation side, we have 15 languages fully supported: British English, Catalan, Catalan (Valencian), Chinese Traditional, Dutch, French, Galician, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Malayalam, Portuguese, Romanian, Swedish, Ukrainian.
We also have 19 languages partially supported: Basque (78%), Belarusian (69%), Brazilian Portuguese (74%), Breton (54%), Chinese Simplified (69%), Estonian (63%), Finnish (61%), German (86%), Hindi (77%), Indonesian (84%), Irish Gaelic (82%), Norwegian Nynorsk (89%), Russian (74%), Scottish Gaelic (71%), Slovak (62%), Slovenian (57%), Spanish (95%), Polish (94%), Turkish (74%).
Usually we only ship translations that are at least 80% complete. However for this release, several translations dropped below 80%. We decided to keep them exceptionally for this release, and hope to see former or new translators complete those translations. If we get updates or new translations, we will make a release update for those.
So if your language is in the partially supported list, or is not yet supported at all, and you want to help, please contact us and we will give you instructions to get started translating.
Another way to help is to write some posts in your community about GCompris, and don't hesitate to give us feedbacks.
Notes:
Thank you all,
Timothée & Johnny
Hi,
Here is GCompris 0.91, a new bugfix release to correct some issues in previous version and improve a few things.
Every GNU/Linux distribution shipping 0.90 should update to 0.91.
With 68 commits since last release, the full changelog is too long for this post. But here is a list to summarize the changes.
Activities:
Other changes:
You can find this new version on the download page, and soon in the Play store and Windows store.
On the translation side, we have 16 languages fully supported:
British English,
Catalan,
Catalan (Valencian),
Chinese Traditional,
Dutch,
French,
Greek,
Indonesian,
Irish Gaelic,
Italian,
Polish,
Portuguese,
Romanian,
Spanish,
Swedish,
Ukrainian.
We also have 15 languages partially supported:
Norwegian Nynorsk (97%),
Hindi (96%),
Turkish (90%),
Scottish Gaelic (86%),
Galician (86%),
Brazilian Portuguese (84%),
Belarusian (84%),
German (81%),
Chinese Simplified (79%),
Russian (78%),
Estonian (77%),
Slovak (76%),
Finnish (76%),
Slovenian (69%),
Breton (65%).
If you want to help completing one of these translations or adding a new one, please contact us.
Else you can still help by making some posts in your community about GCompris and don't hesitate to give feedbacks.
Thank you all,
Timothée & Johnny