The Free Educational Software GCompris Comes To Android

Posted by timothy on Saturday January 17, 2015 @08:52PM from the approved-for-all-ages dept.

New submitter xarma writes GCompris is a reference in its category on GNU/Linux but also on Windows. Its development started in 2000 in Gtk+. Last year the development team, willing to address the tablet and PC users from a single code base, took the hard decision to fully rewrite it in Qt Quick. The new version is now developed under the KDE community umbrella. After one year of work, a first release has been shipped on the Android play store. Continuing on its original funding approach, it remains free software but requires a fee on proprietary platforms.

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Useless summary is useless by Anonymous Coward · 2015-01-17 21:15 · Score: 2, Insightful

I had to fire up a search engine to figure out what the software is all about. Turns out submitter is in good company, as the software's own website is similarly vague about what it does and why I'd want it. Tentatively I'm going with "this is for kids", and, since the summaries are so vague "nice way to waste a rainy sunday afternoon with trying to install it". The educational lesson here is that these would-be educators are too self-absorbed to want to try and learn anything from.