kdenlive for gnome

kdenlive is an old project, I remember it's birth by one developer from the UK many years ago and used to build it from source each time he added stuff, like I don't know ability to cut a clip. :-), at that time Linux really only had Kino (by MLT developer Dan) or that horrible Broadcast2000 -> Cinelerra -> CinerellaCV -> Luminere thing, Jason, the original kdenlive developer chose kde development environment for whatever reasons. kdenlive progressed and as it got more involved it becomes a bigger task to change to QT or other, even if they were any good at the time.

Perhaps try Shotcut or Openshot for a super intergrated Gnome experience. jk :-)

I use probably 2 kde based apps. kdenlive and digikam (for it's database media management, tagging, rating, preview etc) for drag / drop into kdenlive projects and I do think there is an aversion by many to kde based apps, what appears to be a tangled web of kde based libaries to install and think kdenlive's user base would probably increase a bit if it wasn't kde based.

I don't even use kde desktop, really dislike it, a lot!

But kdenlive is too good not to use simply for that dislike. :-) I find it works fine on Gnome or Xfce or Fluxbox etc as grek.