Re: [Goocanvas-devel] First beta of GCompris based on goocanvas has been released

[Damon C. <da...@ka...>]

On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 23:19 +0200, Bruno Coudoin wrote:
> I forget to mention here that we have released a first preview of
> GCompris (8.5PRE1) based on the goocanvas library, you can download it
> from there :
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6865

That is quite impressive - there are lots of different activities.

I did have a few problems with it, if you're interested:

 o The white text on a light-grey background is quite difficult to read.
   I'd suggest either a dark-colored text or a darker background.
 o I often didn't know what to do in an activity. I just discovered the
   help page, so maybe the help page should be shown before each
   activity starts, to tell you what to do.
 o I didn't like the bar at the bottom of the page - it is confusing
   when it is partly hidden, and it pops up slowly and not very
   smoothly. It also gets in the way of some activities.
   I wonder if there is some way to keep all those buttons on the screen
   all the time. - Or maybe they aren't really needed - use F1 for help,
   Esc to quit the game etc. instead.

Just a few thoughts.

If you need any help with the canvas code let me know.


> I would like to take this opportunity to thanks the goocanvas
> developers. It has allowed us to go further by basing GCompris
> on a more modern graphical stack.

You're welcome,

Damon