Lukutoukka

Lukutoukka is a one word at a time text reader for the GNOME desktop. It reads a text file and displays the contents one word at a time at an adjustable speed.

Lukutoukka is available under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

News

• 2005-05-12: 0.2 released
  • Accept a file name as a command line argument
  • Include MimeType in the .desktop file so Lukutoukka is available in Nautilus as a reader for text/plain files
  • Use words per minute as speed slider units
• 2005-05-07: First version, 0.1, released!

Screenshot

Now imagine that word being replaced by the one after it, really, really fast.

Dependencies

• Guile
• guile-gnome (2.7.99+)
• Guile-lib (if you want to run the unit tests)

Of course, guile-gnome brings with itself a large dependency tree.

As of this writing (2005-05-07), all the dependencies except guile-gnome itself are available in Debian. The g-wrap library is in the package guile-g-wrap.

How to get it

You can download the latest version from here.

A compressed snapshot of the darcs repository is also available.

Developer contact

Juri Pakaste