GCompris Changelog

What's new in GCompris 13.11

Nov 6, 2013

Main features:
A new activity in the reading section that presents a set of image,
text and voice to children and an exercise set around them. This
includes about 1000 images and voice in english, spanish, french,
and gaelic-scottish.
The images and voices comes from the Art4Apps project
, a big thanks to them for providing a such
useful resource.
A rework of many text related activities to support multigraph
languages. This is driven by a team of gaelic-scottish users.
Added the font face use in GCompris in the skin configuration
file. It is possible to select another font by manually changing it
with one installed on your system. In boards/skin/babytoy/skin.xml
change the line "" by
"". Ruluko is a font
designated to aid those learning to read:
http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Ruluko
In the future selecting the font should be made available at the
configuration level.
Minor features:
Simplified version of the submarine activity, now there is an easy
first level. Added tooltips to explain items.
Fixed a crash case after leaving intro and land_safe activity.
Optimized PNG files using TruePNG and PNGZopfli.
New country map of Scotland by Fòram na Gàidhlig.
Fixed colors values in the advanced color activity. This page
reports the old and new value
Added support for remembering last passed level by Roopesh Shenoy.
With this option when the children enters an activity the last
succeeded level is proposed.
Added central america and oceania geography map by GunChleoc
Independent wordlist for reading activities by GunChleoc
Now the intro voice is played when help is clicked.
Fixed a bug which makes the administration menu missing

New in GCompris 12.05 (Jun 11, 2012)

Alexander Shopov:
Updated Bulgarian translation
Beth Hadley:
Louis_braille activity: fixed a wrong fact
Bruno Brouard:
Updated French translation
Bruno Coudoin:
Management of sounds in the bar. removed the bleep and play the level in interrupt mode.
Wordsgame: fixed hungarian word dataset, the level 2 was missing. It made reading activities crashing in Hungarian.
Braille_alphabets: fixed level with numbers, was generating a python error.
Geo_country: added India by Matilda Bernard
Wordgame: improved the hungarian list of words by Somlai Istvan
Geo_country: added Australia by Matilda Bernard
Geography: fixed reference to audio files for sudan and congo.
Geography activity: fixed naming of burkina to always be 'burkina faso' - Geography-activity: fixed the name of antartica to be properly spelled as antarctica.
Instrument activity: fixed wrong instrument bass drum was really a snare drum.
Lang activity: reworked the number level using images from wikicommons.
Lang activity: inprogress, added many images.
Lang activity: now play the sounds in interrupt mode, better user experience.
Lang activity: added hightlighs on buttons.
Instruments activities: fixed makefiles.
Core: fixed the command line option --difficulty which was not working.
Core: added the command line option --disable-database
Electric: cleanup, removed unused image.
Electric: added a red led. replaces the diode.
Electric: fixed a simulation issue. there was a missing recalculation when a component blows up. - Electric: now each wire is draw with a random color.
Administration: performance improvement in board selection / deselection
Core: in case no activities are selected display a nice error message.
Windows build: upgraded to gtk+-bundle_2.24.10-20120208
Core: size optimization of all png images with optipng -o7 (30MB size reduction)
Merge branch 'git://git.sugarlabs.org/alsroot/gcompris.git' for Sugar
Tools: added a tool to display the list of missing voices of a given language.
Tools: Improved gimp script foo by Angel Ivan Moreno
Animation activity: fixed the implementation of the z order management.
Windows: upgraded to gtk+-bundle_2.24.10-20120208 This fixes an issue in which users on Windows XP with a 16 bits display color depth could not start GCompris.
Chao-Hsiung Liao:
Updated Traditional Chinese translation
Christian Kirbach:
Updated German translation
Claude Paroz, Bruno Brouard:
Updated French translation
Daniel Mustieles:
Updated Spanish translation
Fran Diéguez:
Updated Galician translations
Frederico Goncalves Guimaraes: - Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation
Gabor Kelemen:
Updated Hungarian translation by Istvan Somlai.
Fix up previous translation
Jiro Matsuzawa:
Updated Japanese translation
Joe Hansen:
Updated Danish translation
Karl Ove Hufthammer:
Updated Norwegian Nynorsk translation.
Lavanya gunasekarancore: no more crash if we fail to write to the database.
Marek Cernocky Updated Czech translation
Matej Urbancic, Martin Srebotnjak:
Updated Slovenian translation
Matilda Bernard:
Geo_country: added china countries.
Mike Karfunkle:
Drawnumber activity; now the dots are in random orders each time we play this activity.
OKANO Takayoshi:
Update Japanese translation
Piotr Drąg:
Updated POTFILES.in
Praveen Arimbrathodiyil:
Gcompris Malayalam translations updated by gcompris Malayalam
Translation updates from Sadiq
Shreya Menon:
Wordprocessor activity: added support for setting hyperlinks
Sowmya Ravidas:
Money activity: the bonus lost is now displayed in case the children click ok and the answer it wrong.
Yannis Kaskamanidis:
Updated Greek translation
Updated Serbian translation
Marco Menardi:
Italian voices: voice set has been cleaned (removed noises).
Philip Morris:
English voices: Julia Wycherley sent us some updated voices.
Gabor Kelemen:
New Hungarian intro sound files from Istvan Somlai
Rudolfs Mazurs:
Added latvian translation

New in GCompris 12.01 (Jan 10, 2012)

New in GCompris 11.12 (Dec 22, 2011)

New in GCompris 11.09 (Oct 26, 2011)

New Activities:
A set of activities to discover the Braille system. They have been made by Srishti Sethi this summer (part of the Gnome Summer of Code):
The history of Louis Braille
Discover the Braille system
Training using a funny game, like falling letters but with Braille
Braille lotto to remember Braille numbers.
click on letter uppercase: same as click on letter but with only upper case. Now the old activity ’click on letter’ poposes only lower case.
Activity updates:
erase activity: added new animals from picture by Adrien Grellier and Claire Gegout from their Antarctic trip.
shapegame activities: now we display the ok button when all shapes are placed even with errors We also show a red cross indicating the children errors. Thanks to Arnaud Limon for the suggestion. Fixed a potential crash when a piece was overwritten by another in their wrong position.
Changed the combo locale system to display the language in their textual form instead of their locale code. Maintain them sorted to make it even easier to use. Now activites with locale configuration use this feature.
Mostly full rewrite of the click on letter activity to allow a specific configuration per language and per user. Now this activity takes a desktop formated file as input. It contains for each level the questions and answers charaters to propose. This file can be edited in the game through the config button, in this case a local data file is save under the user’s My GCompris folder and is reused. Now for each country we must provide a data file, this is much better than before where it was fully random and was not respecting the natural difficulties of a language. If this file is missing we create the level automatically from the alphabet (or from the english one for Latin based alphabet) now display the text of the question if we cannot play it for any reason which makes this activity playable even if we don’t have the voice set or the sound is disabled. Also if one letter is missing from the voice set it remains playable. Improved the graphism. based on an openclipart image. Splitted click on letter in two activities, on with lowercase one with uppercase as suggested by Sylvain Dechy.
memory sound activity: the tux band background image with the bsd devil is considered offensive in some country. Now the bsd devil looks less like a devil and more like a red little boy.
wordsgame activity: changed the text color of the falling words to be back and white I found out that reading text in color other than black and white is very hard.
In login.py and tuxpaint, reactivated the config button that was missing.
memory activity: fixed several potential crash cases when the memory was run with sound disabled.
Now in the hangman, we display the name of the current language.
Advanced color activity: fixed color names not to include _ when composed of 2 names.
Fixed the 2 click drag mode ( run it with gcompris -g 2clicks).
findit: no more ask several times a missing answer at the end of the level
geo-country activity: added the italian country map with 3 sub levels, north, central and south.
bar: added the keyboard shortcut ctrl-b do hide/show the GCompris control bar. Now when changing the level, the sound is played before starting the activity in order not to flush the own activity sound.
advanced_color: remade this activity based on the new findit engine.
details-activity: Fixed the TajMahal level. References to images was wrong.
Voices:
New voice set for Thai by Thummarat Phromphing
English voices: new recordset of our english voices by Julia Wycherley with the help of Philip Morris.

New in GCompris 9.6.1 (Apr 3, 2011)

New features:
Added 2 new activities to learn to give money make in a shop. This is based on the money activity but now the children must give back money to Tux.
Now the erase activity reads the .jpg file in its data directory instead of being hardcoded. In the erase activity we have a large number of animal backgrounds. Now these are found at run time instead of being hard coded. Also the user can add its own images in the directory /My GCompris/erase. Added more animal images taken from wikipedia.
New renewable energy activity. Learn about electric dam, wind farm and solar panels works. This is heavily based on the watercycle activity.
In money activity, we no more auto check the answer, there is now an OK button Created 3 price categories in money activtiy to make the game more realistic. As suggested by Arnaud Champollion, it is just too easy for the children.
improved the drawnumber activity to have its dataset taken from a file instead of hardcoded. Now we have a text file named activity.txt that contains the images and points coordinate. converted .png files in .jpg in drawnumber activity to save disk space.
Bug Fixes:
In the submarine activity, we now destroy and reset the frigate motion when we enter the help. Not doing so makes the children loose the game while reading the manual.
Added a reset button for the locale in the configuration dialog. It is now easier to get back on the default locale. Sorted the locales following their english name instead of the locale code
Deadlock occurs if new playback is scheduled from callback. Observed with sound-memory activity, while playing ’bonus’. In this fix, the sound is player in the gtk idle loop instead of being called directly (Fixed by Andreas Fenkart)
Major random crash fix. In python activity, a call to gcompris.skin.svg_get() was freeing the skin object but it should not. This resulted in random crashes at any point in GCompris when trying to read the skin svg_handle.
Fixed code to compile with the -Werror=unused-but-set-variable gcc new compilation flag.
Fixed invisible cursor on 64 bits systems. The propoerty struct is now properly initialized even on 64 bits systems. Fixed by Peter Ujfalusi.
Watercycle activity: Added toolips to explain the different items. Fixed a minor race issue. Added a bonus flower feedback in watercycle to let the children knows he completed the level. Thanks to Clara Coudoin for the feedback, it is great to have close beta testers.
Added missing image files for money activity.
Added missing activity files for drawnumber.
String updates, requested translation for paintings. As reported by Friedel Wolff: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=636887
Cleanup, removed unused concept of activity board_dir This concept is no more use. Now we use the concept of a global package_data_dir found in the properties.
Translations updates:
Added Montenegrin translation by Montenegro Consulting Company by Montenegro Consulting Company
Added Slovenian translation by Matej Urbančič
Much longer word list for Norwegian Nynorsk. by Karl Ove Hufthammer
New word list for Czech by Marek Černocký by Bruno Coudoin
Updated Czech translation by Marek Cernocky by Petr Kovar
Updated Arabic translation by Khaled Hosny
Updated Arabic translation by Khaled Hosny
Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation by Frederico Gonçalves Guimarães
Updated Czech translation by Marek Černocký
Updated Czech translation by Marek Černocký
Updated Danish translation by Joe Hansen
Updated Danish translation by Joe Hansen
Updated Esperanto translation by Kristjan SCHMIDT
Updated French translation by Claude Paroz
Updated Galician translations by Fran Diéguez
Updated Galician translations by Gonçalo Cordeiro
Updated German translation by Christian Kirbach
Updated Greek translation by Yannis Kaskamanidis
Updated Hungarian translation by Gabor Kelemen
Updated Norwegian Nynorsk translation (still some missing strings). by Karl Ove Hufthammer
Updated Slovenian translation by Andrej Žnidaršič
Updated Spanish translation by Daniel Mustieles
Updated Spanish translation by Sylvia Sánchez
Updated Swedish translation by Daniel Nylander
Updated Swedish translation by Daniel Nylander
Updated Swedish translation by Daniel Nylander
Updated Traditional Chinese translation(Hong Kong and Taiwan) by Chao-Hsiung Liao
Updated asturian translation by Xandru Armesto
Updated breton translation by Alan Monfort
Updated translation and added new word list for Afrikaans (af) by Friedel Wolff
Updated German translation by Mario Blättermann
Updated Russian translation by Yuri Myasoedov
New translation for Zulu by Priscilla Mahlangu

New in GCompris 9.5 (Dec 7, 2010)

Major changes:
Fixed level 8 of babyshapes. The makefile was missing all the images
for this level. I reworked the files so that they lie in the
resource directory instead of subdirectories.
New hangman activity. Icon is a a modified one from Mathieu's icon
set. The cute background is based on a drawing Franck Doucet made
for our bargame activity.This activity uses our
default-.xml files to propose words to the children. It is
thus very important now to have them properly filled. For now I did
the work for English and French. Translators, please refer to this
page for instructions: http://gcompris.net/wiki/Translation_addons
Added details activity by Marc Levivier.In the spirit of famous
painting discovery, in this activity the painting is complete and
the children must put painting parts on the right places.
New feature in the chat activity. The user has a shared white boards
now. This has been developped by Fionn Ziegler.
First release of an in progress tool that converts wiktionary xml
dumps in an xml file. For now, it works only for French, this page
tracks the progress: http://gcompris.net/wiki/Wiktionary_to_XML The
idea behind this is to get an xml formatted dictionnary to create
new activities in the reading / writing area. For now this is just
not used in GCompris.
In planegame now the numbers are spoken when the plane hit the
correct cloud.
Added missing configuration button in several activites where it
makes sense. Now teachers / children can set force uppercase in
click on letter, falling wards, falling letter, horizontal/vertical
reading. Thanks to Luciana from sleducacional.org
Added missing level for photohunter by Marc Levivier
Added the option --disable-level. Some teacher want to be sure the
children don't skip a level.
Now the click on letter activity can be played also with the keybord.
This has been suggested by Sini Ruohomaa.
Fixed reference to tuxpaint dataset. Now we display saved tuxpaint
images in our image selector again. Thanks to the person in
Latinoware 2010 who reported me that this feature has been lost.
The configuration of the 'missing letter' activity was not working for UTF-8
multibyte characters (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=633978)
Added a tooltip to better explain the different fields.
Refined the sudoku's level for scholl usage (By Sylvain Dechy).
Changed the difficulty level of the maze activity to make it more
usable in classrooms. (By Sylvain Dechy)
Minor fixes:
Fixed activity 'double entry' for level 3. References to voices were
wrong, this level was not playable.
Fixed bug in which some buttons are no more displayed like in the
help and the ok buttons in the dialogs (happens on Ubuntu 10.10) No
more use my autocrop feature in goocanvas. It no more works for an
unknown reason but it is not very useful, we can live without it. I
ported GCompris to no more use it.
Added the command line option --nocursor (-C). As its name implies,
GCompris won't show any visible cursor. This is very useful to touch
screen users.
Added missing words list for Ukranian, Esperanto and Hebrew. There
were not properly packaged (they need to be completed anyway).
Now hide the bar in shapegame activities when the focus is on the ok
button we now show the title and info items. This let the children
have a complete view of the painting.
Fixed gc_file_find_absolute() to better parse long and short locale.
Now a 3 letter locale like 'ast' is supported. Added support for
locale Fixed a startup issue. Our gc_file_find_absolute() was without
'.'.
A few fixes to better manage locale especially in click_on_letter to
properly display the locale to search if its not a 2 letter prefix
like for asturian (locale=ast).
Replaced paintings considered not children proof by new one (By Marc
Levivier).
Minor changes:
Added -O2 flag instead of debug in our compilation chain by
default. Without it we crashes on macosx EXC_ARITHMETIC in a g_malloc
in sound init.
Removed the flying plane in the about dialog. This removes the
need for an extra .png of our logo. Now we have our logo in the
main window when we start it.
Integrated the gcompris and fsf logo in our skin.svg file Modified
the code to use the logo from there.
Avoid compilation issue in debug mode in gnuchess.
Added basic instructions to compile GCompris on MacOSX.
Updated translation instructions for our word list xml files.
Fixed activation code. Was broken on windows.
Allow deprecated flag for gtk and gdk to compile again against gtk
2.22
Added an explicit sound_close when we exit.The patch comes from
debian.
Added a toolitp in superbrain activity to make it easy to understand
what a white or black square means.
Added the method gcompris.get_random_word(wordlist, level) on the
python side.
Fixed references to african country for the voices to no more have
them in a separate directory.
Added author information for each paintings by Marc Levivier.
Added the info tag in shape based activity. An info tag is exactly
the same as a title tag except that is is displayed only when the
level is completed and the mouse enters the OK button.
Improved documentation of the sound API documentation (python doc)
Support GNUCHESS environment variable Will be useful in 0install
environment when GnuChess is installed from 0install feed.
Support GNUCAP environment variable Will be useful in 0install
environment when GnuCap is installed from 0install feed.
Fix sqlite-less build by Aleksey Lim
Fixes bug#619433 in the chess game, we no more display the turn at
game end.
Removed the help button in the administration where we don't have
help.
Improved our shape based activities so that titles entries are
raised when the focus enters the OK button. It allows the children to
see the name of the painting even if it is displayed under it.
Improved the python template activity to have an hello world. For
info, this page explains how to add an activity:
http://gcompris.net/wiki/Adding_an_activity
Created a new script utility named createit.sh. It creates a new
empty activity with the given name (only python activity).
Pass NULL as last goo_canvas_image_new's argument. May be fixes some
crashes.
Fixed es.po, no more translate keywords in es.po
In shapegame activities, now the xml format does accept
'targetfile=""' to remove the red dot.
Added the number of activities in the main menu view.
No more check for pysqlite2 unless installed python is 2.4
Fixed status bar call crashing in command line mode like for
gcompris -l list.
README.translators updated to reflect new file organisation.
Added a message in GCompris itself when we fail to load the skin.
Before, when the skin file was not found, which means GCompris is
not properly installed or configured, there was an assert and
nothing was explained to the user. Now there is a message in the
GCompris window.
Now the 'createit.sh ' script used to create a new
activity no more requires you to run make. You can just test your
activity by calling it with 'runit.sh '
Now the text color is black in the memory cards. In white it was
hard to read.
Remade the background image of ball catch, paraglider, helicopter.
Voices:
New voice set for Slovenian by Sa≈°a Batistiƒç
Translations:
Alan Monfort (br)
Aleksey Lim (es)
Andrej ≈Ωnidar≈°iƒç (sl)
Bruno Brouard (fr)
Christian Kirbach (de)
Frederico Goncalves Guimaraes (pt_BR)
Gabor Kelemen (hu)
Giannis Kaskamanidis (el)
Gon√ßalo Cordeiro (gl)
Inaki Larranaga Murgoitio (eu)
Joe Hansen (da)
Jorge Gonz√°lez (es)
Karl Ove Hufthammer (nn)
Mantas Kriauƒçi≈´nas (lt)
Marek ƒåernock√Ω (cs)
Mario Bl√§ttermann (de)
Petr Kovar (cs)
Reuma Mordechai (he)
Xandru Armesto (ast)
Yannis Kaskamanidis (el)

New in GCompris 9.3 (Apr 27, 2010)

This version is a minor update of the 9.2. The main new feature is
that we now distribute a MacOSX version (Intel 10.4 and above).
Minor changes:
Fixed superbrain by Julian Gilbey. In some case the proposed solution
was wrong. This is a long lasting bug.
Added support for MacOSX 10.4 Intel.
Updated icons to reflect latest art work.
Removed flags from GCompris. Flags create political issue. There is not
always a clear relationship between a country flag and a language.
Fixed a typo in sudoku tutorial.
Improved graphism new skins babytoy by Cabaraux Stephane.
Improved many graphism (connect4, ballcatch) by Cabaraux Stephane.
Added a copy of gnome-gnuchess internally since the regular
gnuchess crashes on macosx.This is activated only on MacOSX.
Fixed missing translation request for the "Yes I Saw it" string in
the reading activity.
Workaround for the fullscreen mode on macosx. now set a huge max
ratio hint when fullscreen is set.
Added an ongoing progress status at GCompris startup.
This is used to avoid the long delay at startup without
user feedback.
Fixed the audio tooltip in the bar.
Fixed a segfault in the GCompris dialog box.
New activity lights off by Bruno and Clement Coudoin.
Added more simple levels in lightsoff.
More art work content for photohunter activity
Contributed by Marc Levivier Based on paintings by Le Douanier Rousseau.
Improved wordsgame activity to support language selection.
Fixed score counting in advanced color
Now we give 4 chances at each sublevel. After that
the sublevel restarts.
Fixed redraw activity, several level was impossible to complete.
There was many colors in the image target that was impossible to
do.
Fixed SDL audio backend to allow playing with effects and no
backgroundd music.
Fixed usa map due to missing rhode island.
Translations added:
Added Traditional Chinese by Chao-Hsiung Liao
Added asturian translation by Xandru Armesto Fernandez
Translations updated:
Updated French translation by Zohra Coudoin.
Updated Arabic translation by Khaled Hosny
Update Chinese (Simplified) translation by Ray Wang
Updated Galician translations by Fran Dieguez
Updated Greek translation for gcompris by Yannis Kaskamanidis
Update Czech translation by Marek Cernocky
Updated Spanish translation by Jorge Gonzalez
Updated German translation by Mario Blattermann
Updated Norwegian Nynorsk translation by Karl Ove Hufthammer
Updated Greek translation for gcomprixogoo by Yannis Kaskamanidis
Updated Basque translation by Inaki Larranaga
Updated Czech translation by Marek Cernocky
Updated Swedish translation by Daniel Nylander
Updated Slovenian translation by Andrej Znidarsic
Updated russian translation by Slava Dubrovskiy

GCompris Changelog

What's new in GCompris 13.11

New in GCompris 12.05 (Jun 11, 2012)

New in GCompris 12.01 (Jan 10, 2012)

New in GCompris 11.12 (Dec 22, 2011)

New in GCompris 11.09 (Oct 26, 2011)

New in GCompris 9.6.1 (Apr 3, 2011)

New in GCompris 9.5 (Dec 7, 2010)

New in GCompris 9.3 (Apr 27, 2010)

New in GCompris 9.2.2 (Apr 1, 2010)