News

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:

The long awaited Analog Electricity activity which allows us to draw circuits and run their simulation.

Learn digits and two subactivities to learn additions and subtractions. The aim is to teach these concepts to younger children, with easy computations.

Baby keyboard where, when a character is typed on the keyboard, we display it on the screen and play the corresponding voice if it exists.

Gravity, which replaces the old Intro Gravity, explains better the concept and is more realistic.

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:

A programming maze: to learn the basics of programming with a few instructions

Baby tangram: to learn the basics of tangram (this activity corresponds to the lowest levels of previous tangram activity)

And a lot of new features:

new sub-categories to organize activities

new background music feature and audio tracks

new volume settings for audio effects

new speed setting in several activities (gletters, algebra, readingh, note_names)

new feature in chess activities to display captured pieces

new option to go to next level manually in drawletters and drawnumbers

new voices for en_US

new images for colors activity

new images for advanced_colors activity

new images for target activity

improve settings layout

improve share activity layout

improve categorisation activity layout

resource files are now stored in KDE server (https://cdn.kde.org/)

add a tutorial to even/odd numbers

add intro to piano_composition

add malayalam dataset to gletters

add breton dataset to wordsgame

fix voices not playing in geography

fix sounds not playing in mining

fix portrait mode in binary_bulb

fix high cpu load in menu

fix hint image size in photo_hunter

fix layout in color_mix

and lots of other small fixes...

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:

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 or RaghuMalaylamSans 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

Финский (90%)

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

Примечания:

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