GCompris : I got IT

Release 12.11 ============= The GCompris development team is happy to propose you a new version of GCompris named 12.11. This release includes 13 new activities, probably more than any release of GCompris so far. We now have 136 activities in GCompris! Here is a summary of the changes: Beth Hadley: Beth developed 7 new activities during her Google Summer of Code 2012: - explore_farm_animals: Learn about farm animals, what sounds they make, and interesting facts. http://gcompris.net/en-explore_farm_animals - explore_world_animals: Learn about world animals, interesting facts and their location on a map. http://gcompris.net/en-explore_world_animals - explore_world_music: Learn about the music of the world. http://gcompris.net/en-explore_world_music - note_names: Learn the names of the notes, in bass and treble clef, with the help of sounds and colors http://gcompris.net/en-note_names - piano_composition: An activity to learn how the piano keyboard works, how notes are written on a musical staff and explore music composition by loading and saving your work. http://gcompris.net/en-piano_composition - play_piano: Learn to play melodies on the piano keyboard! http://gcompris.net/en-play_piano - play_rhythm: Learn to listen to, read, and play musical rhythms. http://gcompris.net/en-play_rhythm Bruno Coudoin: geography: removed sublevels, reworked and fixed many maps removed the libgnet dependency. core, bug fix, in case an actvity is removed from GCompris, the wrong activity was removed from the database. core, bug fix, broken lang selector for catalan python api documentation updated. sudoku, level 5 was broken chess, on linux we can build the internal gnuchess scalesboard, little graphic improvement fifteen activity, improved background sudoku, graphical improvement with a new background from openclipart. SDL Audio backend (used on Windows). Added support for the play and interrupt mode, sounds will be more responsive now. Clément Coudoin: geography, new asia map level. Peter Albrecht: New activity named mining: Use the mousewheel to approach the rockwall an look for gold nuggets. http://gcompris.net/en-mining Maze activities: added sport shoes to Tux to indicating the "run_fast"-mode Matilda Bernard: Matilda developed 5 new activities during her Google Summer of Code 2012: - color_mix: To understand color mixing. http://gcompris.net/en-color_mix - color_mix_light: Understanding mixing of colors of light. http://gcompris.net/en-color_mix_light - intro_gravity: Introduction to the concept of gravity http://gcompris.net/en-intro_gravity - land_safe: Understanding acceleration due to gravity. http://gcompris.net/en-land_safe - place_your_satellite: Understanding effect of mass and distance on orbital velocity. http://gcompris.net/en-place_your_satellite Jozef Riha: Added Slovak voive set Philip Morris and Julia Wycherley: Updated English voices And thanks a lot to our translators: Alexandre Franke: French translation Andrej Žnidaršič: Updated Slovenian translation Aurimas Černius: Updated Lithuanian translation Chris Leonard: Updated Russian translation Christian Kirbach: Updated German translation by Peter Albrecht Daniel Mustieles: Updated Spanish translation Dominik Granada: Updated Polish translation Fran Diéguez: Updated Galician translations Frederico Goncalves Guimaraes: Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation Gabor Kelemen: Updated Hungarian translation Gonçalo Cordeiro: Updated Galician translations Marek Černocký: Updated Czech translation Martin Srebotnjak: Updated Slovenian translation Matej Urbančič: Updated Slovenian translation Michal Kaukič: Updated slovak translation Piotr Drąg: Updated Polish translation Sasi Bhushan Boddepalli: Updated Telugu Translation Tirumurti Vasudevan: Updated Tamil translation Yannis Kaskamanidis: Updated Greek translation Yuri Myasoedov: Updated Russian translation Мирослав Николић: Updated Serbian translation