Re: [school-discuss] [Announce gcompris 2.0.0] From: Bruno Coudoin<bcoudoin@anfora.fr>

[Richard Smedley <richard.smedley@futurenet.co.uk>]

Nobody wrote:

> GCompris has been ported to GNOME 2.0.
> Starting at gcompris 2.0, you now need GNOME 2 on your system to run 
> it.
>
> The advantage of using GNOME 2 are a complete UTF-8 support, better
> fonts display and support for alpha blending in PNG images in the
> canvas.
>  
The other advantage of porting to GNOME2 (or Java Swing) is
that the apps become accessible to users dependent upon the
accessibility features of their computer - something GNOME2
excels at with its keyboard navigation and themes (high or
low contrast and large fonts).

Also the assistive technologies being developed, such as GOK
(the GNOME Onscreen Keyboard, as well as Gnopernicus - a
magnifier and braille/TTS interface). These will reach 1.0 release
in a few months, making GNOME2 software (and the next
releases of Mozilla and OpenOffice.org) accessible to many
thousand disabled students.

http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/

All of this will be working much better by the 2.2 release.

- Richard

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