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| 2001-05-21 Bruno Coudoin <bruno.coudoin@free.fr> | ||
| * GCompris 0.6.1 | ||
| * GCompris is now a GNU Package | ||
| * WARNING: THE TRANSLATION IS BROKEN. | ||
| * Complete rewrite to have boards being independant plugins | ||
| * Directory change to have only one root dir for boards data | ||
| * Added the scales board | ||
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| 2001-02-18 Bruno Coudoin <bruno.coudoin@free.fr> | ||
| * GCompris : Release 0.4.1 | ||
| * WARNING: Since images have changed a lot, it is mandatory to | ||
| remove old images from /usr/share/pixmaps/gcompris/* | ||
| or whatever directory they are installed on your system. | ||
| This should be done automatically by RPM and DEB package users. | ||
| * Added the documentation. It can be browsed directly from | ||
| GCompris help menu or with GNU info | ||
| * The falling animals board has been replaced by fishes | ||
| This has to be done due to the unkwown knowledge of the | ||
| author of the animals and of their licensing. | ||
| Fishes are taken from the project xfishtank and are free of | ||
| right. | ||
| * Added the planegame board. This board let you drive a plane | ||
| and your goal is to catch the clouds in the increasing order. | ||
| The way the plane is moved (relative speed) confuses a lot the | ||
| children. I feel it is good to have them learn this way of | ||
| controlling an object. | ||
| * Added the shape board which feature a puzzle of old | ||
| impresionists paintings. | ||
| * Removed the sounds. I discovered that the sounds I were using | ||
| was the standard Gnome ones. I now point to them, so no sounds | ||
| are included in GCompris. I did this to be sure that I don't | ||
| include file I am not sure of their origin and copyright status. | ||
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| Please read the project news online on: | ||
| http://gcompris.net/-News- |
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| * gcompris_edit should allow teachers to create profiles. | ||
| gcompris should accept on the command line a conf file as created by | ||
| gcompris_edit. | ||
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| * More boards both educational and/or recreationnal. | ||
| see a list at http://gcompris.net/wiki/index.php/Ideas_for_activities | ||
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| * Boards idea: | ||
| - simple geometry: redo a symetrical drawing | ||
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| * Use thepixbuf animation feature for fishes instead of my own | ||
| animation implementation | ||
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| * GCompris editor : It will let teachers/educators to create their | ||
| own boards. | ||
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| * More feedback | ||
| * More feature, see a list at: | ||
| http://gcompris.net/wiki/index.php/Requested_Features | ||
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| * Add an independant server side software that can control gcompris | ||
| behaviour and record the student scoring. It must also include | ||
| authentication. Already got a name for that : schoolbus | ||
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| * Add a board to set the current date on a calendar with date/month/year | ||
| and season (Have fun with season and I18N ;) | ||
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| * Add a board for child identification. | ||
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| * change the scale board to be more realistic and flexible. | ||
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| * Dynamic screen resolution change (using Xrender) | ||
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| * Dynamic skin change | ||
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| * Remove the Gnome dependancy to use GTK only. The gnomecanvas itself do | ||
| not require gnome. Less dependancy less install issues. Also could | ||
| make porting easier. | ||
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| * Add an audio output selector an test in the config window | ||
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| Bug report from Marec Dirson: | ||
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| - dans le tableau "trains" (et sans doute ailleurs), il lui arrive | ||
| souvent de cliquer sur des zones transparentes et de s'�tonner que �a | ||
| ne marche pas (je me demande si je ne t'avais pas d�ja fait cette | ||
| remarque) | ||
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| - quand on fait glisser qqch � la souris, �a serait int�ressant | ||
| d'em�cher le pointeur d'entre dans la barre du bas, pour �viter de la | ||
| m�me fa�on d'activer une commande par erreur (il a par exemple | ||
| plusieurs fois cliqu� sur le d�, et perdu le tableau en cours) | ||
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| - un moyen rapide de savoir si le tableau fonctionne avec la souris ou | ||
| le clavier serait utile (ex. une ic�ne dans la barre). Souvent en | ||
| allant vers un tableau "inconnu" il essaye la souris (il a essay� de | ||
| cliquer sur les lettres qui tombent :) - tiens, �a me rappelle mon 1er | ||
| contact avec le labyrinthe, que par ailleurs il aime bien ;) | ||
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| - il a �t� d��u de ne pas "pouvoir" explorer tous les tableaux dispo, | ||
| j'ai d� le convaincre que vu ses perfs aux additions, les | ||
| soustractions et le reste seraint pour plue tard :). On retombe sur | ||
| la possibilit� de restriction des tableaux accessibles suivant l'�ge | ||
| ou autre) | ||
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| - je me demande si dans le tableau "train" il ne serait pas mieux de | ||
| faire la construction par drag'n'drop. Si il prend la bonne loco mais | ||
| se trompe de wagon, il faut recommencer au d�but, c'est pas top. | ||
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| - Aussi, il y a un cas ou malgres qu'on mettes la bonne solution, | ||
| il ne trouve pas que c'est OK. | ||
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| - si on ajoute beaucoup de wagons, ils d�passent de l'�cran et on ne les | ||
| voit plus. Quand on enl�ve les wagons qui d�passent, il se passe des choses | ||
| bizarres : ils disparaissent tous en m�me temps ! | ||
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| - le bouton "d�" est beaucoup trop pr�s des boutons "replay" et "pouce", | ||
| dont on se sert plus souvent. | ||
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| - dans le labyrinthe, quand on laisse le doigt appuy� sur la touche pour | ||
| aller vite � la sortie, Tux marche tout seul dans le labyrinthe suivant (il | ||
| faut vider le tampon du clavier au d�but du tableau) | ||
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| - dans le tableau des correspondances : | ||
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| + apr�s �a, si tu laches un objet sur un autre d�ja pos� (pour | ||
| �cahnger, donc), ce dernier disparait du tableau (sournoisement me | ||
| dit-on ;) | ||
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| - quand on est en mode plein �cran, et qu'on clique sur "aide" dans | ||
| l'�cran "� propos", il lance un navigateur qui n'est pas visible. | ||
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| - chess: Replace color change by dotted cases in the chess board. | ||
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| - Pause the background music when playing music with sounds | ||
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| ----------- PROFILE DESIGN ------------- | ||
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| We need to create a profile and edition mecanism in gcompris. Here is a | ||
| description of how we plan to implement this. This has been designed on | ||
| an IRC chat session with Yves. | ||
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| Profiles can be edited when gcompris is started with 'gcompris -e'. | ||
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| Profile provides there features: | ||
| - A profile can be associated with a list of kids name. In this case, | ||
| gcompris will display a login selector with the list of names when run | ||
| in this profile. No passwords are managed. | ||
| - A profile can be associated a list of activities (currently done in | ||
| gcompris_edit, gcompris_edit is deleted). | ||
| - There is always at least one profile ('default' by default). | ||
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| The trace mecanism includes the profil (default is none selected) and | ||
| the gcompris kids name instead of the unix user name if available. | ||
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| when gcompris -e is run, if an activities is editable, the edit button | ||
| in the gcompris bar will apprear. | ||
| Each activity is in charge of editing its content. it's content is | ||
| always saved in .gcompris/activities_data/<activity_name>/<profile>/<board specific | ||
| here> | ||
| GCompris core provides facilities to the edition. The first facility to | ||
| be implemented is to edit text. in the api, we provideompris_edit("some explanation", validator_callback). | ||
| The explanation will be display above the text entry. The teacher will | ||
| edit the text (like list of words in the entry box). The validator | ||
| callback returns an empty string if text is ok, an error message else. | ||
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| When a board is started it first check for a content | ||
| in .gcompris/activities_data/<activity_name>/<profile>/ | ||
| if none avalaible here, then the default is usedhese new fatures are mandatory in gcompris is we want to go further, | ||
| especialy in reading activities. There is many ideas we could implement | ||
| easily in the reading area but we cannot until we have in place a goodowerfull and generic edition and profiling mecanism. | ||
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| Teachers want to have some edit capability to adapt gcompris to their | ||
| courses. We could make some dirty hack and go faster but in the end we | ||
| will loose the maintainabilty of gcompris. I want to keep gcompris fun | ||
| to code and continue the strong separation between the boards and the | ||
| core. | ||
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| Now in term of planning, I cannot work on this now. My plan is to | ||
| integrate gcompris with physicfs like we talked here a few monthes ago. | ||
| Then make a new release for the windows version. This is most important | ||
| because it will make it easier to distribute updates (python activities | ||
| only) to all our users, whatever the platform they use. | ||
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| This will allows us to make gcompris a complete, full featured | ||
| educational software that rivals many proprietary ones. | ||
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| If somebody want to work on the profile concept, we will be abble to | ||
| provide these features at least 6 monthes earlier than what I can do. | ||
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| - source-contains-CVS-dir gnome2-macros/CVS |