GCompris is a high quality educational software suite comprising of numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10. Some of the activities are game orientated, but nonetheless still educational.
Currently GCompris will provide you in excess of 100 activities and more are being developed.
Here are some key features of "GCompris":
· computer discovery: keyboard, mouse, different mouse gesture
· algebra: table memory, enumeration, double entry table, mirror image
· science: the canal lock, the water cycle, the submarine, electric simulation
· geography: place the country on the map
· games: chess, memory, connect 4, oware, sudoku
· reading: reading practice
· other: learn to tell time, puzzle of famous paintings, vector drawing, cartoon making
Limitations:
· Limited activities
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
Bug fixes:
· windows installer: fixed a potential directory erasing at uninstall or reinstall time. Properly erase all our files at unistallation time
· windows: updated the compilation chain for windows to compile against GTK 2.24
· desktop entry: Added the Education category
· compilation: Added ifdefs to compile with gdkpixbuf > 2.24 by Hans de Goede
· guessnumber: fixed a potential crash at exit time. Give focus on the entry box.
· braille fun: added audio feedback.
· braille alphabet: improved to audio play the letter to find
· braille lotto: fixed not to go back to the main menu at the end. Improved it a little bit the layour to accomodate with longer translated text. Added sound effects.
· shapegame: Fixed a random crash in shapegame activities that happened while dragging a piece. Minor, now clicking on the left/right image selector does not trig the ok check.
· findit: Fixed to run on Windows 7
· clockgame: the first levels now highlight the hour sectors to make them easier to recognize and to teach. (By Angelo Naselli)
· instruments activity: added a check for sound availability in the icon menu. Now the background music is muted when entering this activity.
· memory: minor fix in memory activity to fix their reference to their mandatory audio file. Without this, a little audio error does appear at run time in the activity icon.
Translations updates:
· Updated Estonian translation by Olle Niit
· Updated Serbian translation