[gcompris-devel] Happy new year

[F Wolff]

Op Saterdag 2008-01-05 skryf Bruno Coudoin:
> The list is rather quiet these days but be assure that a lot of work is
> being done on GCompris. As you know I am changing the internal drawing
> library to use the goocanvas instead of the gnomecanvas. This brings a
> lot of small but mandatory features to let us continue going forward
> with GCompris on a more modern drawing API.
> 
> So far, I completed the port except for the anim activity that does
> resist. I hope to complete it soon and release a beta version to have it
> tester widely.
> 
> The bigger advantage of the goocanvas is to leverage the use of the SVG
> vector format. Once the beta is out, I will request the help of your
> graphism experience to replace our pixmaps by native SVG everywhere it's
> possible. By the way, the goocanvas does anti aliasing by default and
> even a scaled up GCompris with our current pixmaps doesn't look so bad.
> 
> So happy new year everybody and I hope we will be able soon to add
> exiting new features for the children.
> 

Well done on all the work, Bruno. What software do you recommend for SVG
work? Inkscape?

A happy new year to you and the whole GCompris community too.

Friedel