[GCompris-devel] GCompris RELEASE 0.50

[Bruno Coudoin]

Hello world,

Just on time for Christmas and after 6 months of hard work we are ready
to provide the children with GCompris 0.50.

So far we have many fixes and improvements all around in 563 commits
done by 17 contributors and more than 20 translators.

Just looking at the 12 new activities:

- Bruno: A single player and two player chess activity. It shows the
children the possibilities of each pieces and is very easy to win
against at first levels.

- Bruno:  An activity where the children listen to the sound sequence
played, and reproduce it by clicking on xylophone's bars.

- Siddhesh Suthar (part of GSoC): The children is proposed a set of
words. Each word is shown with a voice, a text and an image. When done,
an exercise asks him to find the right word given the voice.

- Pulkit Gupta: A puzzle with famous paintings.

- Johnny Jazeix, A reading practice activity. Some words are moving, it
trains the children to read.

- Sagar Chand Agarwal (part of GSoC): A scientific simulation where the
children click on the different stages to make up the power supply.

- Sagar Chand Agarwal (part of GSoC):  The water system. In it, the
children has to click on different active elements: sun, cloud, pumping
station, and the sewage treatment plant, in order to reactivate the
entire water system.

- Holger: A fine motor skill practice activity. The children must
navigate the ball to the door. Be careful to not make it fall into the
holes. On mobile it uses the accelerometer. For this activity we have
integrated the box2d engine ( https://github.com/qml-box2d/qml-box2d).

- Rajdeep Kaur: The classical hangman. The children must guess the
letters of the given word. To help, on every wrong try, a part of the
image representing the word will be revealed.

Languages supported:Brazilian Portuguese, British English, Catalan,
Catalan (Valencian), Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Dutch,
Finnish (92% translated), French, Galician, German, Italian, Norwegian
Nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, Russian (98% translated), Slovak (92%
translated), Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian.

A loading overlay is now available to let the user know that some
actions (loading a level in an activity for example) is taking place and
can take some seconds.
We also fixed visual glitches in some activities due to a misuse of
ColorOverlay and Colorize items.

Thanks to all of you who step by step make GCompris the outstanding
educational software it is now.

So far 2 years after the start of the Qt Quick port we completed the
rewrite of 114 activities out of the 140 of the Gtk+version. You can
check the status of the port on
(http://gcompris.net/wiki/Qt_Quick_Migration_status)
<http://gcompris.net/wiki/Qt_Quick_Migration_status%29>. If we keep this
momentum we can expect to announce the completion of the port somewhere
next year.

If you want to help, please make some posts in your community about
GCompris.

Tarball: http://gcompris.net/download/beta/gcompris-0.50.tar.bz2
(GNU/Linux packagers are welcome)
Android arm:
http://gcompris.net/download/beta/GCompris-Android-release-signed-aligned-armeabi-dl-0.50.apk

Bruno.
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