It is unnerving to touch buttons when the screensaver runs while a movie is playing.

Kino is seriously outdated and Avidemux is only good for a few simple tasks. Cinelerra and jahshaka are too complex.

Ubuntu needs a simple thumbnail based video editing solution that can work with a variety of formats (GStreamer).

In the age of YouTube and where everyone has a video camera the importance of this cannot be underestimated.

This has been suggested before in quite good detail, but only in a comment:

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xirtus wrote on the 21 May 08 at 10:37
hey I really want to say the most important thing right now for a open video editor is that it has to be thumbnail based like the new imovie 08. This should be very easy to accomplish, many folks have been doing this for some time in some form or another; editing on compressed files and then applying the edits to the higher definition originals...

This means less processing, and no rendering until the final render out...

An open source video editor that offered a thumbnail workflow would blast away most of the competition...
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Now is says that the currently loaded plugins do not provide means to burn such disks.

When you play 'corrupted' videos in vlc, it just skips the frames it can't read. Totem on the other hand stops entirely and throws an errormessage at you. This is annoying. I'd like to see this kind of immunity in totem...