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No compiling is necessary - they all come in Ubuntu - Tomby by default, glipper and gnome-launch-box are in the universe repository. Once you find a program on the web you can use apt-cache search or packages.ubuntu.com to find which package to install - it's hard to believe the power and...

Sabayon can do that because it's a source-based distribution - since source is free speech in the US, and source by itself doesn't actually decrypt DVDs or whatever, there's no restrictions on distributing it. You the user end up compiling the source into the binary, which you might not be able...

An equivalent for Launchy is Gnome Launch Box (or Katapult for KDE), all of these are heavily influenced by Quicksilver for OS X. Tomboy is a sticky note program included in GNOME. Glipper is a clipboard manager for GNOME. These productivity-improving apps are out there, it's just you need to...

You dwell on the shortcomings of kino a bit - you should consider trying Cinelerra as well. Another option is PiTiVi, but it's still in the early stages of development. As for MythTV, it's definitely not the most user-friendly thing to get set up and working, but once you do it's quite easy...