Questions about external assets

[Sina Fesahati(Encrypted Messaging)]

Hi Johnny,

Thank you for your guidance.

I also appreciate Timothée for guidance.

External assets are essential for android version and I agree with descriptions you provided.

In this situation maybe requesting extra files packagement and also dependency of GCompris to that package will be helpful for GNU/Linux repositories.

I recommend you to create about page for GCompris project or FAQ because of this kind of questions I asked if it's possible. I would also happy to contribute to the project(especially translation to Persian).

Sincerely,
Sina-------- Original Message --------
On Apr 4, 2023, 10:39 PM, Johnny Jazeix < jazeix at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Le mar. 4 avr. 2023 à 19:31, Sina Fesahati(Encrypted Messaging) <[sina.fesahati at protonmail.com][sina.fesahati_protonmail.com]> a écrit :
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> > Hi everyone,
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> > There are some questions about GCompris software/package which I wanted to ask and I couldn't find an answer via website or mail archive:
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> > \-GCompris is a GNU package or KDE package?
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> \* https://www.gnu.org/education/edu-software-gcompris.en.html
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> \* https://apps.kde.org/gcompris/
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> > \-Does this software depends on non-free packages or content(like licensed assets)?
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> All the assets are free. It's either GPL, CC-BY-SA or public domain.
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> > \-Why some of the assets not contained in the software itself?
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> Because of the size. For example, all the voices can be found at https://cdn.kde.org/gcompris/data2/.
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> We package for 3 different OS (depending on the codec for each platform) + for each locale. Usually, you only want one locale and one platform. Downloading around 1.5Go for this is too much.
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> Android also had a limit size to 100Mo at some point so we needed to have a package below it.
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> > \-Where this external assets downloaded and are there any file to install that assets without downloading?
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> Assets are totally optional. Introduction voices and background music are a bonus and the complete wordset too (there is a small subset in GCompris itself so the depending activities still work).
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> They are downloaded from the cdn ( https://cdn.kde.org/gcompris/data2/) and installed locally in the "cache" folder. It depends of the OS but for Linux, it is under ~/.cache/KDE/gcompris-qt.
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> > Sincerely,
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> Cheers,
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