[gcompris-devel] First experiments with GCompris

[Bruno Coudoin]

Le mercredi 15 avril 2009 à 13:48 +0200, Ronny Standtke a écrit :
> Hi all
> 
> My older daughter is now almost three years old and today was the first day 
> when I showed her GCompris. I was really surprised that she instantly 
> understood the erase activity. She really liked it and started experimenting 
> with a combination of erasing (moving) and bringing back (clicking) the 
> blocks. She was very proud when she managed to erase all blocks of a picture 
> and recognized almost all animals in the activity. Then I run into the 
> situation where the background picutre showed some strange animals on a tree 
> and my daughter asked me what kind of animals they were.... I had no idea and 
> no way to easily find out. How embarrassing! :-)

I think your daughter found a lemuridae:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemuridae

> How about adding a little text to each picture showing the name of the 
> animal(s)?

That's a good idea and this is a very easy thing to do. Anybody willing
to provide a patch (the development version is in the branch
gcomprixogoo) ?

> The other activity she tried was clickanddraw. She was very excited when I 
> showed her how this activity worked. Unfortunately, she always clicked when 
> the whole mouse pointer was centered above the blue circle, not when the tip 
> of the mouse pointer was on the center. This way she did not manage to click 
> on the spots. I tried to explain to her the concept of the tip of the mouse 
> pointer but she gave up in frustration.
> How about changing the mouse pointer in this activity into crosshairs?

Maybe you can try to run GCompris with the -c (--cursor) option that
disable the cute cursor and put the X default cursor instead.

Other option is to wait one week. Children learn really fast at this
age.

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