[gcompris-devel] Software Quality

[Ronny Standtke]

Hi again,

after a short period of suspension from gcompris I gave the new gcompris-4.2 a 
test run. I found immediately the following problems:


1. Localization crash

When starting several boards an error message similar to the following appears 
on the terminal:

** (gcompris:4419): WARNING **: [Invalid UTF-8] Failed to set requested locale 
E got (null)

The gcompris (line?) number varies from board to board. When this error occurs 
the localization of gcompris just "crashes". All the following boards are in 
English. (Normally I use the German localization.) This problem occured with 
the following boards: imagename, geography, babyshapes, babymatch, paintings, 
scalesboard and doubleentry.


2. Clowns face and handbook

When you open the handbook while the clowns face is shown (sad or glad) the 
program ignores the handbook "dialog" and just goes on. The program paints 
"over" the handbook dialog and you can even click on items behind the 
handbook dialog. The following boards are affected: imageid, colors, 
read_colors, advanced_colors, leftright, paratrooper, erase, fifteen, hanoi, 
algebra_by, algebra_minus, algebra_plus, enumerate, target, reversecount, 
money and algebra_guesscount.


3. Nonmodal handbook dialog

(Somewhat related to bug #2 this bug is independend of the clowns face.) If 
you open the handbook dialog in some boards you can still use the board in 
the background as if there was no open handbook dialog. The following boards 
are affected: babyshapes, paintings, scalesboard, doubleentry, maze and 
railroad.


Sorry - but in this shape gcompris is still no option for the school I am 
supervising. I hope I can deploy gcompris somewhen after all these issues are 
debugged. I will do the best I can and keep on hammering on further gcompris 
releases :-)

Greetings

Ronny

PS: It's now almost a year I'm waiting for a "stable" gcompris :-(