[gcompris-devel] comments, bug report

[Bruno Coudoin]

Based on what I see, there must be an installation problem on your
system. You are running an uncomplete installation.

Please, remove 
/usr/local/share/gcompris
/usr/local/lib/gcompris
/usr/local/bin/gcompris

Check gcompris is not installed in 
/usr/share/gcompris
/usr/lib/gcompris
/usr/bin/gcompris

Then reinstall with 
make install

Most of your problem should be gone now.

Beside that, the plane with number board should be limited to the first
level 1 to 10. After it is boring and useless.

For the splash, we have not think about it. It may be complex because we
target children that don't read.
On this topic, today we focus on implementing an help on each board.
Some already have it like 'draw', 'fish click'  and paratrooper if I
remember well. 
To me, the help is more for the teacher than the child that usually find
by themselve what to do ;)

Anyway, please confirm us that it is really an install issue. For
example, the bicycle as been redone by Renaud, you have it in
boards/gcompris/misc/bicycle.png check you have the clean one.

Bruno.


le lun 11-03-2002 à 13:41, Cedric Bertolini a écrit :
> Hello,
> 
> I tested gcompris-1.0.0pre4 and have it tested by my girlfirend and I have
> some comments, and a bug to report :
> 
> - in the boards "horizontal reading" and "vertical reading", I can't even
> understand how I am to tell to software that I've found the good word.
> Nothing works, bar space, return or mouse click. And after a dozen of
> words, gcompris crashes with this error message (in french) :> ** ERROR
> **: Ne peux pas trouver le fichier
> /usr/local/share/gcompris/boards/reading/button.png !> aborting...
> (can't find file)
> 
> - the bicycle png image is very hard to drag and, once dragged and
> magnified, it doesn't really loke like a bicycle... It's too thin.
> 
> - my general feeling is that there's a lack of information about where the
> user is (menu or board), about what's the board about. IMHO, a splash
> screen at the beginning of each board to tell what's to be done and how,
> even if it's trivial, would be a great help. The captions in the menu
> screens aren't enough, IMHO.
> 
> - The board with the airplane that catches numbers is very strange. It
> seems more difficult at level 1 than at level 6, because the plane is
> bigger and less responsive. As the board is about flying between clouds to
> touch the good ones, a bigger, less responsive airplane is really harder
> to drive ! Beside this, I think the board is too long. It takes too much
> times. At level 1, there's so much inertia in the flyship that one can
> hardly avoid hitting bad clouds, and so the board seem to never end !
> 
> - the instruction boxes inside the boards are never translated in french.
> (like "Set the masses in the decreasing order", or "Place the shapes in
> their proper location")
> 
> Well, here are some feelings of mine. But nevertheless, gcompris is a
> great software. It's very funny, even for a more-than-10 years old guy :-)
> 
> I hope that my comments will allow you to improve gcompris. I can do the
> missing translations in french, if you wish.
> 
> Cédric Bertolini.
> 
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