[gcompris-devel] Release 11.09

Sat Oct 8 18:45:25 UTC 2011

Hello Bruno,

I hope this email finds you well.

I am very aware that I still have your voice recorder and do wish to return
it to you.  However, as there is a new version of Gcompris coming out, would
you mind if I were to hold on to it for a little while longer whilst I
investigate any new recordings?

With best wishes from a very windy, cold and wet Jersey :-(

Phil

On 30 September 2011 22:46, Bruno Coudoin <bruno.coudoin at gcompris.net>wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> We did not get many feedback on the 11.09RC1, let's assume everything is
> perfect then, time for asking translators for an update.
>
> The new release will be out the 15th of October, let me know if you need
> more time.
>
> Here are the release notes:
>
> New Activities:
>
> - A set of activities to discover the Braille system. They have been
>  made by Srishti Sethi this summer (part of the Gnome Summer of
>  Code):
>
>  - The history of Louis Braille
>  - Discover the Braille system
>  - Training using a funny game, like falling letters but with Braille
>  - Braille lotto to remember Braille numbers.
>
> - click on letter uppercase: same as click on letter but with only upper
> case.
>  Now the old activity 'click on letter' poposes only lower case.
>
> Activity updates:
>
> - erase activity: added new animals from picture by Adrien Grellier
>  and Claire Gegout from their Antarctic trip.
>
> - shapegame activities: now we display the ok button when all shapes
>  are placed even with errors We also show a red cross indicating the
>  children errors.  Thanks to Arnaud Limon for the suggestion.  Fixed
>  a potential crash when a piece was overwritten by another in their
>  wrong position.
>
> - Changed the combo locale system to display the language in their
>  textual form instead of their locale code. Maintain them sorted to
>  make it even easier to use. Now activites with locale configuration
>  use this feature.
>
> - Mostly full rewrite of this activity to allow a specific
>  configuration per language and per user.  Now this activity takes a
>  desktop formated file as input. It contains for each level the
>  questions and answers charaters to propose. This file can be edited
>  in the game through the config button, in this case a local data
>  file is save under the user's My GCompris folder and is reused.  Now
>  for each country we must provide a data file, this is much better
>  than before where it was fully random and was not respecting the
>  natural difficulties of a language. If this file is missing we
>  create the level automatically from the alphabet (or from the
>  english one for Latin based alphabet) now display the text of the
>  question if we cannot play it for any reason which makes this
>  activity playable even if we don't have the voice set or the sound
>  is disabled. Also if one letter is missing from the voice set it
>  remains playable.  Improved the graphism. based on an openclipart
>  image.  Splitted click on letter in two activities, on with
>  lowercase one with uppercase as suggested by Sylvain Dechy.
>
> - memory sound activity: the tux band background image with the bsd
>  devil is considered offensive in some country.  Now the bsd devil
>  looks less like a devil and more like a red little boy.
>
> - wordsgame activity: changed the text color of the falling words to
>  be back and white I found out that reading text in color other than
>  black and white is very hard.
>
> - In login.py and tuxpaint, reactivated the config button that was
> missing.
>
> - memory activity: fixed several potential crash cases when the memory
>  was run with sound disabled.
>
> - Now in the hangman, we display the name of the current language.
>
> - Advanced color activity: fixed color names not to include _ when
>  composed of 2 names.
>
> - Fixed the 2 click drag mode ( run it with gcompris -g 2clicks).
>
> - findit: no more ask several times a missing answer at the end of the
> level
>
> - geo-country activity: added the italian country map with 3 sub
>  levels, north, central and south.
>
> - bar: added the keyboard shortcut ctrl-b do hide/show the GCompris
>  control bar. Now when changing the level, the sound is played before
>  starting the activity in order not to flush the own activity sound.
>
> - advanced_color: remade this activity based on the new findit engine.
>
> - details-activity: Fixed the TajMahal level. References to images was
>  wrong.
>
> Voices:
>
> - New voice set for Thai by Thummarat Phromphing
>
> - English voices: new recordset of our english voices by Julia
>  Wycherley with the help of Philip Morris.
>
> Internal changes:
>
> - core: added the option gcompris --test that runs all the activities
>  automatically in sequecnce.  This is usefull only for test purpose.
>  Added the key shortcuts in the manual.
>
> - core python plugin: added support for multi python dir path (must be
>  separated by :). Can be used useful in init_path.sh for example to
>  pass several directory, one with a plugin engine and one derivative.
>
> - build: preparation for a port to GTK3. Now compiles with
>  CFLAGS+="-DGDK_DISABLE_DEPRECATED -DGTK_DISABLE_DEPRECATED"
>
>
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With Kind Regards

Phil Morris
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