Tip for developers

I've been looking at a few of the NLE's available out there for Linux and I feel the need to give some advice: Rough trimming is a bad thing to have to perform on the timeline. It's extremely clunky to not have the option to mark head and tail before laying an edit down on the timeline. Trimming is fine to do on the timeline but that should only involve seconds and frames. If you've logged a thirty second shot and want to use 12 frames from it it's insane to drag it to the timeline to trim off 29,5 seconds.