Application =========== gcompris 4.1
Description =========== GCompris is a full featured education game for kids between 3 and 10. The game includes many different activities like teaching how to use a mouse and keybord, memory games, vector drawing, basic educational games, reading, algebra exerciser and more. Enhancements ============ In 4.0 we included the first usable activity developped using the python bindings in gcompris. This showed how great it works and how easy it is now to develop in gcompris. Hope some will take this opportunity. Here is the description of the water cycle activity in python: http://www.ofset.org/gcompris/boards/fun/watercycle_en.html Now, using gcompris command line option, you can now use: -A to select the audio output device (esd, alsa, oss, arts,...) -d <difficulty level> it tells gcompris to display only activities matching this difficulty level. As for 4.1 release, there as been many improvement in the vector drawing activity. They can now rotate and flip images and items. That's the only vector drawing activity (including proprietary windows software) that I know to be targeting kids. It's excellent, I moved my older son clement (10 years old) from gcompris to sodipodi without trouble, he knew all the concept, just the buttons changed. Even with 40 different activities, gcompris maybe looks like a complete education application. Not to me. We can and must go further there is many activity missing that could help schools and kids all over the worlds. We also miss an integrated reporting system so that it will be easy for their teachers to monitor what kids are doing well or bad in the school computer lab. With gcompris, we already created a top level education application that makes most prorietary applications useless and inferior. Hope to see you soon on the gcompris mailing list ;) Fixes ===== In the board compilation process, activities are no more dinamic linked with anything. - about: added credit to the Background Music to Rico Da Halvarez. - changed the compilation process (configure.in) to compile python by default now. Translation Updates =================== Translation updates: - cs.po: Updated Czech translation by Miloslav Trmac - fr.po: Updated French translation by Bruno - it.po: Updated italian translation by Immacolata Arenga . - nl.po: Dutch translation updated by Tino Meinen. - sk.po: Updated Slovak translation by Zdenko Podobny. - sl.po: created by damjan kovac - sr.po, [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Updated Serbian translation by Danilo � egan - sv.po: Updated Swedish translation by Christian Rose Download ======== Gcompris: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6865 Assetml data (minimum you need the libassetml and assetml-flags): http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=13320 Optionnaly you can get these one if there is one in your locale: assetml-voices-alphabet assetml-voices-colors assetml-voices-geography assetml-voices-misc-en If they are not available, please help the schools and kids of your country, pick up a mic and contribute with your voice. GNOME Software Map entry ======================== http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/gcompris _______________________________________________ gnome-announce-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-announce-list
