[gcompris/gcomprixogoo] Updated project documentation.

[Bruno Coudoin <bcoudoin src gnome org>]

commit 2c50e012161b79b93060d57b2bfb98e4f904dcd7
Author: Bruno Coudoin <bruno coudoin free fr>
Date:   Tue Jan 26 23:54:51 2010 +0100

    Updated project documentation.

 NEWS |   37 +----------------
 TODO |  142 +----------------------------------------------------------------
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 174 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 7674b2a..e5b73bc 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,35 +1,2 @@
-
-2001-05-21  Bruno Coudoin  <bruno coudoin free fr>
-	* GCompris 0.6.1
-	* GCompris is now a GNU Package
-	* WARNING: THE TRANSLATION IS BROKEN.
-	* Complete rewrite to have boards being independant plugins
-	* Directory change to have only one root dir for boards data
-	* Added the scales board
-
-2001-02-18  Bruno Coudoin  <bruno coudoin free fr>
-	* GCompris : Release 0.4.1
-	* WARNING: Since images have changed a lot, it is mandatory to
-	           remove old images from /usr/share/pixmaps/gcompris/*
-	           or whatever directory they are installed on your system.
-	           This should be done automatically by RPM and DEB package users.
-	* Added the documentation. It can be browsed directly from
-	  GCompris help menu or with GNU info
-	* The falling animals board has been replaced by fishes
-	  This has to be done due to the unkwown knowledge of the
-	  author of the animals and of their licensing.
-	  Fishes are taken from the project xfishtank and are free of
-	  right.
-	* Added the planegame board. This board let you drive a plane
-	  and your goal is to catch the clouds in the increasing order.
-	  The way the plane is moved (relative speed) confuses a lot the
-	  children. I feel it is good to have them learn this way of 
-	  controlling an object.
-	* Added the shape board which feature a puzzle of old 
-	  impresionists paintings.
-	* Removed the sounds. I discovered that the sounds I were using
-	  was the standard Gnome ones. I now point to them, so no sounds
-	  are included in GCompris. I did this to be sure that I don't
-	  include file I am not sure of their origin and copyright status.
-
-	
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+Please read the project news online on:
+http://gcompris.net/-News-
diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 94e22f3..d425afc 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -1,20 +1,9 @@
 
-* gcompris_edit should allow teachers to create profiles.
-  gcompris should accept on the command line a conf file as created by
-  gcompris_edit.
-
 * More boards both educational and/or recreationnal.
+  see a list at http://gcompris.net/wiki/index.php/Ideas_for_activities
 
-* Boards idea:
-  - simple geometry: redo a symetrical drawing
-
-* Use thepixbuf animation feature for fishes instead of my own
-  animation implementation
-
-* GCompris editor : It will let teachers/educators to create their
-  own boards.
-
-* More feedback
+* More feature, see a list at:
+  http://gcompris.net/wiki/index.php/Requested_Features
 
 * Add an independant server side software that can control gcompris
   behaviour and record the student scoring. It must also include
@@ -22,128 +11,3 @@
 
 * Add a board to set the current date on a calendar with date/month/year
   and season (Have fun with season and I18N ;)
-
-* Add a board for child identification.
-
-* change the scale board to be more realistic and flexible.
-
-* Dynamic screen resolution change (using Xrender)
-
-* Dynamic skin change
-
-* Remove the Gnome dependancy to use GTK only. The gnomecanvas itself do
-  not require gnome. Less dependancy less install issues. Also could
-  make porting easier.
-
-* Add an audio output selector an test in the config window
-
-Bug report from Marec Dirson:
-
-- dans le tableau "trains" (et sans doute ailleurs), il lui arrive
-souvent de cliquer sur des zones transparentes et de s'étonner que ça
-ne marche pas (je me demande si je ne t'avais pas déja fait cette
-remarque)
-
-- quand on fait glisser qqch à la souris, ça serait intéressant
-d'emêcher le pointeur d'entre dans la barre du bas, pour éviter de la
-même façon d'activer une commande par erreur (il a par exemple
-plusieurs fois cliqué sur le dé, et perdu le tableau en cours)
-
-- un moyen rapide de savoir si le tableau fonctionne avec la souris ou
-le clavier serait utile (ex. une icône dans la barre).  Souvent en
-allant vers un tableau "inconnu" il essaye la souris (il a essayé de
-cliquer sur les lettres qui tombent :) - tiens, ça me rappelle mon 1er
-contact avec le labyrinthe, que par ailleurs il aime bien ;)
-
-- il a été déçu de ne pas "pouvoir" explorer tous les tableaux dispo,
-j'ai dû le convaincre que vu ses perfs aux additions, les
-soustractions et le reste seraint pour plue tard :).  On retombe sur
-la possibilité de restriction des tableaux accessibles suivant l'âge
-ou autre)
-
-- je me demande si dans le tableau "train" il ne serait pas mieux de
-faire la construction par drag'n'drop.  Si il prend la bonne loco mais
-se trompe de wagon, il faut recommencer au début, c'est pas top.
-
-- Aussi, il y a un cas ou malgres qu'on mettes la bonne solution,
-  il ne trouve pas que c'est OK.
-
-- si on ajoute beaucoup de wagons, ils dépassent de l'écran et on ne les
-voit plus.  Quand on enlève les wagons qui dépassent, il se passe des choses
-bizarres : ils disparaissent tous en même temps !
-
-- le bouton "dé" est beaucoup trop près des boutons "replay" et "pouce",
-dont on se sert plus souvent.
-
-- dans le labyrinthe, quand on laisse le doigt appuyé sur la touche pour
-aller vite à la sortie, Tux marche tout seul dans le labyrinthe suivant (il
-faut vider le tampon du clavier au début du tableau)
-
-- dans le tableau des correspondances :
-
- + après ça, si tu laches un objet sur un autre déja posé (pour
- écahnger, donc), ce dernier disparait du tableau (sournoisement me
- dit-on ;)
-
-- quand on est en mode plein écran, et qu'on clique sur "aide" dans
-l'écran "à propos", il lance un navigateur qui n'est pas visible.
-
-- chess: Replace color change by dotted cases in the chess board.
-
-- Pause the background music when playing music with sounds
-
------------ PROFILE DESIGN -------------
-
-We need to create a profile and edition mecanism in gcompris. Here is a
-description of how we plan to implement this. This has been designed on
-an IRC chat session with Yves.
-
-Profiles can be edited when gcompris is started with 'gcompris -e'.
-
-Profile provides there features:
-- A profile can be associated with a list of kids name. In this case,
-gcompris will display a login selector with the list of names when run
-in this profile. No passwords are managed.
-- A profile can be associated a list of activities (currently done in
-gcompris_edit, gcompris_edit is deleted).
-- There is always at least one profile ('default' by default).
-
-The trace mecanism includes the profil (default is none selected) and
-the gcompris kids name instead of the unix user name if available.
-
-when gcompris -e is run, if an activities is editable, the edit button
-in the gcompris bar will apprear.
-Each activity is in charge of editing its content. it's content is
-always saved in .gcompris/activities_data/<activity_name>/<profile>/<board specific
-here>
-GCompris core provides facilities to the edition. The first facility to
-be implemented is to edit text. in the api, we provideompris_edit("some explanation", validator_callback).
-The explanation will be display above the text entry. The teacher will
-edit the text (like list of words in the entry box). The validator
-callback returns an empty string if text is ok, an error message else.
-
-When a board is started it first check for a content
-in .gcompris/activities_data/<activity_name>/<profile>/
-if none avalaible here, then the default is usedhese new fatures are mandatory in gcompris is we want to go further,
-especialy in reading activities. There is many ideas we could implement
-easily in the reading area but we cannot until we have in place a goodowerfull and generic edition and profiling mecanism.
-
-Teachers want to have some edit capability to adapt gcompris to their
-courses. We could make some dirty hack and go faster but in the end we
-will loose the maintainabilty of gcompris. I want to keep gcompris fun
-to code and continue the strong separation between the boards and the
-core.
-
-Now in term of planning, I cannot work on this now. My plan is to
-integrate gcompris with physicfs like we talked here a few monthes ago.
-Then make a new release for the windows version. This is most important
-because it will make it easier to distribute updates (python activities
-only) to all our users, whatever the platform they use.
-
-This will allows us to make gcompris a complete, full featured
-educational software that rivals many proprietary ones.
-
-If somebody want to work on the profile concept, we will be abble to
-provide these features at least 6 monthes earlier than what I can do.
-
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