News

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:

Binary bulbs: to learn how to count in binary

Railroad activity: to train visual memory

Solar System: to learn about our solar system

Name that Note: to learn to recognize musical notes and their names

Play Piano: to train reading notes on a score

Play Rhythm: to train following a musical rhythm

Piano Composition: to learn composition of a musical score

You can find packages of this new version for 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:

On Linux and Windows, we used to have two separate installers for OpenGL and software rendering. Now both rendering modes are available from the same installer. By default we try to use the OpenGL rendering, and if not working, we show an error and switch to the software rendering. This automatic switch is new and may not work everywhere. In case it doesn't, you can manually select the software rendering mode by editing the configuration file (in ~/.config/gcompris/gcompris-qt.conf for Linux, %LocalAppData%/gcompris/GCompris.conf for Windows): find the line "renderer=auto", replace auto with software and save the file. We are also interested to get some feedback to help us improve this auto-detection.

For the Malayalam language, we noticed some issues with the default font "Andika-R". We recommend Malayalam users to select the font Noto-Sans-Malayalam from the application menu (if it is not available in the list you need to install this font on your system to be able to select it).

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:

fix English text in several activities

fix score position in several activities

block some buttons and interactions when needed in several places

lots of fixes for audio in several activities

number_sequence (and others based on it), fix base layout

update dataset for clickanddraw, drawnumbers and drawletters

crane, add localized dataset

lightsoff, add keyboard support and other fixes

algorithm, add keyboard support and other fixes

money, fixes for locale currency used

ballcatch, improve audio feedback

calendar, several little fixes

memory-case-association fix icons size

Other changes:

re-enable sound effects on linux

improved playback of sound effects, no more delay

add captions to images and OARS tags in the appdata

add Scottish Gaelic to core, and update some datasets for it

main bar, fix some items size

remove unused images

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

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

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 !

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.

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

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 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 linux installers are signed. You can retrieve the public key over https here: 0x63d7264c05687d7e.asc.

Thank you all,
Timothée & Johnny

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 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