[gcompris-devel] Release gcompris-13.08RC1.exe

[Bruno Coudoin]

Hi all,

I just built a beta version of GCompris. This new release includes these 
main features:

- A new activity in the reading section that presents a set of image,
   text and voice to children and an exercise set around them. This
   includes about 1000 images and voice in english, spanish, french,
   and gaelic-scottish.

   The images and voices comes from the Art4Apps project
   <http://www.art4apps.org>, a big thanks to them for providing a such
   useful resource.

- A rework of many text related activities to support multigraph
   languages. This is driven by a team of gaelic-scottish users.

- Added the font face use in GCompris in the skin configuration
   file. It is possible to select another font by manually changing it
   with one installed on your system. In boards/skin/babytoy/skin.xml
   change the line "<font id="gcompris/fontface" name="sans"/>" by
   "<font id="gcompris/fontface" name="ruluko"/>". Ruluko is a font
   designated to aid those learning to read:
   http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Ruluko
   In the future selecting the font should be made available at the
   configuration level.


And some minor one:

- Simplified version of the submarine activity, now there is an easy
   first level. Added tooltips to explain items.

- fixed a crash case after leaving intro and land_safe activity.

- Optimised PNG files using TruePNG and PNGZopfli.

- New country map of Scotland by Fòram na Gàidhlig.

- Fixed colors values in the advanced color activity. This page
   reports the old and new value:
   http://gcompris.net/wiki/Color_translation

- Added support for remembering last passed level by Roopesh Shenoy.
   With this option when the children enters an activity the last
   succeeded level is proposed.

- Added central america and oceania geography map by GunChleoc

- Independent wordlist for reading activities by GunChleoc

- Now the intro voice is played when help is clicked.

- Fixed a bug which makes the administration menu missing

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Of course your test and feedback is appreciated, I hope that we can 
complete this version in September.

For Windows users you can download it there :
https://gcompris.net/download/gcompris-13.08RC1.exe
(Use the code 121212 to access all the activities.)

Bruno.