This is (fairly) off-topic, I think this your opinion of Java GUIs is inaccurate. Although my Java development is mostly focused in the EE space, I've done some simple GUI stuff recently and SWT certainly looks no different to a native application, and Sun have finally caught up with that idea in the later versions of Swing. Copy & paste is not a problem for me with SWT apps on either Unix or Windows. Or Swing apps, for that matter. This is without any additional work on the part of the application: the widget set just provides it.

What doesn't it do that you require? FWIW, Bundyo's right in that tablet-encode's roots are Unix-based, and the fact it runs on Windows is a side-effect of mencoder and Perl's portability.

It seems that you wrote this because you didn't know tablet-encode existed, fine - that's my fault for not advertising it outside of the maemo.org community. But it also sounds like you have sound functional requirements which it doesn't meet (which I'd be interested to know from a pure "competitor" point of view) and technical reasons for not wanting to hack on it now that you know it exists (specifically, that you "don't know [Perl]" and "don't like" Perl from what you've seen of it).

Scratching your own itches is fine, and learning through writing software is always good. It's just frustrating to see wheels being reinvented solely for having a different manufacturing process, but the size, shape and colour otherwise being the same! [/bad analogy]

Sorry if this sounds like I'm berating you, just trying to minimise the amount of duplication in our small community.