I am a teacher (grades 0-8) in a small Danish village. I persuaded my collegues to go from Win98 to Edubuntu 18 months ago. We have 20 thin clients on Edubuntu, and everything is fine.

That is - almost everything. I spared 4 WinXP PC's, because, as I told them ,"When it comes to sound and video - WinXP is better than Edubuntu". When we work with video and sound, it is WinXP - anything else is Edubuntu.

I came across Kdenlive 3-4 weeks ago, and it was a long waited and nice software. At last, Edubuntu could sompete with WinXP.

To the point: I too have dreamed of a genuine Linux Production Suite. I have used Audacity for 4-5 years, Celtx the last two years, and now Kdenlive.

I can understand that it is difficult, to have the developers to make GUI's that look alike, but they should be able fetch data from each others files, so a storyboard saved in Celtx could easily be imported in Kdenlive. I am not an experienced coder myself, but maybe anyone could explain the complexity of such an integration?