[gcompris-devel] GCompris's future

[Bruno Coudoin]

Le 09/02/2014 15:08, Yannis Tsopokis a écrit :
> Maybe since this is a full rewrite you should give it a new name that 
> indicates the new direction. What about Qcompris? I am willing to 
> participate in the development. I'll try to create the chat activity.

Hi,

This is a good news. Concerning the name, I really want to keep the 
GCompris name. It is now know and recoknized all over the world. It 
takes time to build a such reputation and I am afraid to start over from 
scratch. For now let's name it GCompris-qt, and when it will be fully 
ported we will call the old version GCompris-gtk.

Concerning the chat activity, the way it was implemented was based on a 
network multicast. It was designed to work only in a LAN like in a 
classroom. It was not working in some places with Wifi that blocks 
multicast. So there is some thinking to have, how can it be done if we 
want to target tablets and desktops, what about cellular connections. 
Maybe the best is to create a web service for this. Another important 
topic is privacy, children should be able to communicate only with their 
classmate or known specific children. How to manage that. Do you have 
ideas on this?

BTW, I marked your insterest in the chat there 
http://gcompris.net/wiki/Qt_Quick_Migration_status

Bruno.