[gcompris-devel] [New release 8.3.6 and 8.4.5]

[Bruno Coudoin]

New release 8.3.6 and 8.4.5. Both release are close in functionality
but use different libraries. The release 8.3.6 is mostly needed only for
Windows.

Finally there is a new activity in GCompris this time. This is a good
news, I got a lot of fun adding it, it remembers me the old days.

What's New:
- New football based activity to learn the double click.
- Reintroduced the erase double click activity by popular demand.
- Added Mexican geography map by Jorge Diaz
- Added support for Persan by Ehsan Nouri
- The Windows demo version now proposes 46 on 108 Activities. The
  previous demo only had about 20.
- It is now possible to add activity introduction voices.
  If provided, it will be played when the activity starts and when
  it's help is requested.
  To provide an activity intro, you must put it under:
  boards/voices/<locale>/activity/<activity name>-intro.ogg
  By the way we don't have yet any recoding for this feature.

What's fixed:
- Created a link nn to nb voice set until we a recorded voice
- Made the chess activity to search for gnuchess in usual
  directory if it is not found in the one detected at compilation
  time.
- Updated our build system to support automake1.10
- You still need to copy config.rpath from the gettext
  package manually.
- Fixed the release of the lock when GCompris exit
- Patch from Karl Ove Hufthammer in memory activity to display
  1 + 2 instead of 1+2 and make the text
  being white.
- Fixed random offset bug in which it was possible to have
  the ball placed on the top line which was triggering the border
  touch sounds endlessly.
- Fixed Canadian map that was too much on the left so that buttons
  was not easily accessible.


I am still working hard on the upcoming and future version based on the
goocanvas. It misses the animation which I am mostly rewriting from
scratch to include a time line so that children will be able to edit
frames as they wish.

-- 
Bruno Coudoin
http://gcompris.net Free educational software for kids
http://toulibre.org Logiciel Libre à Toulouse