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id="magicdomid2710"><span
class="author-a-ny1gjwvfz122z4z67zz82zaz84zgd">Hello world,</span></div>
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<div class="ace-line primary-author-a-ny1gjwvfz122z4z67zz82zaz84zgd"
id="magicdomid2723"><span
class="author-a-ny1gjwvfz122z4z67zz82zaz84zgd">Just on time for
Christmas and after 6 months of hard work we are ready to
provide the children with GCompris 0.50.</span></div>
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<div class="ace-line primary-author-a-ny1gjwvfz122z4z67zz82zaz84zgd"
id="magicdomid303"><span
class="author-a-ny1gjwvfz122z4z67zz82zaz84zgd">So far we have
many fixes and improvements all around in 563 commits done by 17
contributors and more than 20 translators.</span></div>
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<div class="ace-line primary-author-a-ny1gjwvfz122z4z67zz82zaz84zgd"
id="magicdomid488"><span
class="author-a-ny1gjwvfz122z4z67zz82zaz84zgd">Just looking at
the 12 new activities:</span></div>
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<div class="ace-line primary-author-a-ny1gjwvfz122z4z67zz82zaz84zgd"
id="magicdomid1968"><span
class="author-a-ny1gjwvfz122z4z67zz82zaz84zgd">- Bruno: A single
player and two player chess activity. It shows the children the
possibilities of each pieces and is very easy to win against at
first levels.</span></div>
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id="magicdomid1956"><span
class="author-a-ny1gjwvfz122z4z67zz82zaz84zgd"><br>
- Bruno: An activity where the children listen to the sound
sequence played, and reproduce it by clicking on xylophone's
bars.</span></div>
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id="magicdomid2110"><span
class="author-a-ny1gjwvfz122z4z67zz82zaz84zgd"><br>
- Siddhesh Suthar (part of GSoC): The children is proposed a set
of words. Each word is shown with a voice, a text and an image.
When done, an exercise asks him to find the right word given the
voice.</span></div>
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id="magicdomid2158"><span
class="author-a-ny1gjwvfz122z4z67zz82zaz84zgd"><br>
- Pulkit Gupta: A puzzle with famous paintings.</span></div>
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id="magicdomid2303"><span
class="author-a-ny1gjwvfz122z4z67zz82zaz84zgd"><br>
- Johnny Jazeix, A reading practice activity. Some words are
moving, it trains the children to read.</span></div>
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id="magicdomid2391"><span
class="author-a-ny1gjwvfz122z4z67zz82zaz84zgd"><br>
- Sagar Chand Agarwal (part of GSoC): A scientific simulation
where the children click on the different stages to make up the
power supply.</span></div>
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id="magicdomid2425"><span
class="author-a-ny1gjwvfz122z4z67zz82zaz84zgd"><br>
- Sagar Chand Agarwal (part of GSoC): The water system. In it,
the children has to click on different active elements: sun,
cloud, pumping station, and the sewage treatment plant, in order
to reactivate the entire water system.</span></div>
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id="magicdomid2646"><span
class="author-a-ny1gjwvfz122z4z67zz82zaz84zgd"><br>
- Holger: A fine motor skill practice activity. The children
must navigate the ball to the door. Be careful to not make it
fall into the holes. On mobile it uses the accelerometer. For
this activity we have integrated the box2d engine ( </span><span
class="author-a-ny1gjwvfz122z4z67zz82zaz84zgd url"><a
href="https://github.com/qml-box2d/qml-box2d"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/qml-box2d/qml-box2d">https://github.com/qml-box2d/qml-box2d</a></a></span><span
class="author-a-ny1gjwvfz122z4z67zz82zaz84zgd"> ).</span></div>
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id="magicdomid2587"><span
class="author-a-ny1gjwvfz122z4z67zz82zaz84zgd"><br>
- Rajdeep Kaur: The classical hangman. The children must guess
the letters of the given word. To help, on every wrong try, a
part of the image representing the word will be revealed.</span></div>
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<div class="ace-line primary-author-a-ny1gjwvfz122z4z67zz82zaz84zgd"
id="magicdomid2694"><span
class="author-a-kz122zz84zz76z0lgz89zenz79zz84zz122zl5z66z">Languages
supported:</span><span
class="author-a-ny1gjwvfz122z4z67zz82zaz84zgd"> Brazilian
Portuguese, British English, Catalan, Catalan (Valencian),
Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Dutch, Finnish (92%
translated), French, Galician, German, Italian, Norwegian
Nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, Russian (98% translated), Slovak
(92% translated), Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish,
Ukrainian.</span></div>
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<div class="ace-line
primary-author-a-kz122zz84zz76z0lgz89zenz79zz84zz122zl5z66z"
id="magicdomid2620"><span
class="author-a-kz122zz84zz76z0lgz89zenz79zz84zz122zl5z66z">A
loading overlay is now available to let the user know that some
actions (loading a level in an activity for example) is taking
place and can take some seconds.</span></div>
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primary-author-a-kz122zz84zz76z0lgz89zenz79zz84zz122zl5z66z"
id="magicdomid2696"><span
class="author-a-kz122zz84zz76z0lgz89zenz79zz84zz122zl5z66z">We
also fixed </span><span
class="author-a-ny1gjwvfz122z4z67zz82zaz84zgd">visual </span><span
class="author-a-kz122zz84zz76z0lgz89zenz79zz84zz122zl5z66z">glitches
in some activities due to a misuse of ColorOverlay and Colorize
items.</span></div>
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<div class="ace-line primary-author-a-ny1gjwvfz122z4z67zz82zaz84zgd"
id="magicdomid585"><span
class="author-a-ny1gjwvfz122z4z67zz82zaz84zgd">Thanks to all of
you who step by step make GCompris the outstanding educational
software it is now.</span></div>
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<div class="ace-line primary-author-a-ny1gjwvfz122z4z67zz82zaz84zgd"
id="magicdomid2727"><span
class="author-a-ny1gjwvfz122z4z67zz82zaz84zgd">So far 2 years
after the start of the Qt Quick port we completed the rewrite of
114 activities out of the 140 of the Gtk+version. You can check
the status of the port on (</span><span
class="author-a-ny1gjwvfz122z4z67zz82zaz84zgd url"><a
href="http://gcompris.net/wiki/Qt_Quick_Migration_status%29"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://gcompris.net/wiki/Qt_Quick_Migration_status">http://gcompris.net/wiki/Qt_Quick_Migration_status</a>)</a></span><span
class="author-a-ny1gjwvfz122z4z67zz82zaz84zgd">. If we keep this
momentum we can expect to announce the completion of the port
somewhere next year.</span></div>
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If you want to help, please make some posts in your community
about GCompris.<br>
<br>
Tarball: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://gcompris.net/download/beta/gcompris-0.50.tar.bz2">http://gcompris.net/download/beta/gcompris-0.50.tar.bz2</a>
(GNU/Linux packagers are welcome)<br>
Android arm:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://gcompris.net/download/beta/GCompris-Android-release-signed-aligned-armeabi-dl-0.50.apk">http://gcompris.net/download/beta/GCompris-Android-release-signed-aligned-armeabi-dl-0.50.apk</a><br>
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id="magicdomid1070"><span
class="author-a-ny1gjwvfz122z4z67zz82zaz84zgd">Bruno.</span></div>
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