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Glade 3.0 is a great GUI designer. I can't imagine creating a GUI using code when this option is available. It takes no more than a few minutes to setup a screen, name your signals, and set the default properties. It's also super easy to hook up the handler methods.

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Now that I have completed many tutorials and logged many hours coding, I feel good about my Python skills. I can easily create classes, use inheritance, call methods, and my favorite, list comprehensions. Now what? I need to learn GTK+, and how to use it with Python. I found a great tutorial for PyGTK ...

On my quest to adapt my programming skills to the Python language, I ran across a great ebook / tutorial, Dive Into Python. Although it has some pretty complicated examples, where I would have preferred simple examples, it's still a great resource. It is written for experienced programmers in mind, so it's not supposed ...

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.

The answer ...

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 clips ...