Soon I will have to answer the question, "How do I render a video timeline using Python & Glade / PyGTK?". Their are obviously no widgets that are made for this function, and I can't exactly assemble buttons, images, and labels on the screen and make it look very nice or believable.

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In my opinion, the #1 most important aspect of any software is it's interface (aside from doing something useful, of course). How easy is it to use? How intuitive and streamlined is it? Case in point, their are many video editors for Linux... so why is nobody happy? Many of them can combine video ...