GCompris 0.97 release

[Deepak Kumar]

That's great to hear!

On Mon, 2 Dec 2019, 12:44 am Timothée Giet, <animtim at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> We are pleased to announce the release of GCompris version 0.97.
>
> This new version contains 2 new activities:
>
> -A programming maze: to learn the basics of programming with a few
> instructions
> -Baby tangram: to learn the basics of tangram (this activity corresponds
> to the lowest levels of previous tangram activity)
>
> And a lot of new features:
>
> -new sub-categories to organize activities
> -new background music feature and audio tracks
> -new volume settings for audio effects
> -new speed setting in several activities (gletters, algebra, readingh,
> note_names)
> -new feature in chess activities to display captured pieces
> -new option to go to next level manually in drawletters and drawnumbers
> -new voices for en_US
> -new images for colors activity
> -new images for advanced_colors activity
> -new images for target activity
> -improve settings layout
> -improve share activity layout
> -improve categorisation activity layout
> -resource files are now stored in KDE server (https://cdn.kde.org/)
> -add a tutorial to even/odd numbers
> -add intro to piano_composition
> -add malayalam dataset to gletters
> -add breton dataset to wordsgame
> -fix voices not playing in geography
> -fix sounds not playing in mining
> -fix portrait mode in binary_bulb
> -fix high cpu load in menu
> -fix hint image size in photo_hunter
> -fix layout in color_mix
> -and lots of other small fixes...
>
> You can find packages of this new version for GNU/Linux, Windows and
> MacOS on the download page. This update will also be available soon in
> the Android Play store and the Windows store. For Raspberry Pi, we'll
> provide an installer soon. The updated version for iOS is still not
> available. Note that the MacOS package is not yet notarized, we will
> look at doing this during next year.
>
> On the voices side, we added a new voice "try again" which is used in
> several activities instead of "check answer". You can check on this page
> if this voice is available in your language:
> https://gcompris.net/voicestats/ (in the "Misc" section). You can help
> us by providing a nice recording of your voice for all the missing
> entries in your native language.
>
> On the translation side, we have 20 languages fully supported: Basque,
> Brazilian Portuguese, Breton, British English, Catalan, Chinese
> Traditional, Dutch, French, Galician, Greek, Italian, Macedonian,
> Malayalam, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish,
> Ukrainian.
>
> We also have 15 languages partially supported: Belarusian (65%), Catalan
> (Valencian 95%), Chinese Simplified (66%), Estonian (93%), Finnish
> (86%), German (96%), Hindi (73%), Hungarian (95%), Indonesian (95%),
> Irish Gaelic (78%), Norwegian Nynorsk (93%), Russian (76%), Scottish
> Gaelic (67%), Slovenian (54%), Turkish (95%).
>
> Usually we only ship translations that are at least 80% complete.
> However several translations dropped way below 80% (especially
> Slovenian, Belarusian and Scottish Gaelic ; but also Hindi, Russian and
> Irish Gaelic). We decided to keep those exceptionally for this release,
> and hope to see former or new translators complete those translations.
> If we get updates or new translations, we will make a release update.
>
> So if your language is in the partially supported list, or is not yet
> supported at all, and you want to help, please contact us and we will
> give you instructions to get started translating.
>
> Another way to help is to write some posts in your community about
> GCompris, and don't hesitate to give us feedbacks.
>
> Notes:
> For the Malayalam language, we noticed some issues with the default font
> "Andika-R". We recommend Malayalam users to select the font
> Noto-Sans-Malayalam or RaghuMalaylamSans from the application menu (if
> it is not available in the list you need to install this font on your
> system to be able to select it).
>
> Thank you all,
> Timothée & Johnny
>
>
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