FTP Client for Linux?

[BLiZZaRD]

I am looking for a comparable client to Filezilla. I hate Kasablanca and gftp is just too weak.

I would prefer one with auto transfer, nice GUI (I don't want a CLI one) and good settings options.

If I could make filezilla for Linux.. that's what I am after... any ideas?

[boogyman]

how about FileZilla for linux?

http://linux.softpedia.com/progDownl...oad-24197.html

[BLiZZaRD]

Well, now don't I feel sheepish. Last time I downloaded FZ it was still Windows only.

I guess it would benefit me to research a bit before getting all "posty" about silly things, eh?

Thanks I will try it out!

[Twey]

gftp is just too weak.

Eh? gftp is a pretty awesome client. Have you seen all the protocols it does?

Of course, KDE has automatic support for most of them because of kioslaves Konqueror makes a great FTP client.

[BLiZZaRD]

yes, I have used gftp for the last couple years. It just doesn't do exactly what I need. mainly the lack of auto upload (ACSII or Binary) I have to choose and I forget a lot of the time and have to re-upload. I am just lazy and don't like to swap the methods.

[Twey]

Well, if you're using KDE you can use kioslaves and save a file directly to an FTP URL. It's transparent.

[BLiZZaRD]

I don't venture over to KDE very often. I have grown used to Gnome. (not that kioslaves is the same) I have noticed that everything I have used for Gnome is also used in KDE and vice versa. So I really have to ask whats the point of the swap?

[Twey]

Well, in this case the ability to save directly to a remote site from your editor. You don't have to be in KDE, just use a KDE editor, it should run under GNOME as well.

I'm on GNOME right now, as it happens, due to Qt3's rubbish glyph substitution capabilities, and there are a bunch of things that bug me about it: it's slow, it leaks like a sieve and becomes unusable after being left open for a few days, it does weird things with focus, its terminal messes up, its file dialogues insist on scanning every file in a directory before letting me open/save there (choosing a helper app from /usr/bin takes ages), and it's not very customisable (and the default themes are very bland-feeling). It has a sort of minimalistic charm, and a few neat features (like handling my various Xmodmap files on startup for me) but not worth ditching KDE for, I think.

[BLiZZaRD]

it's slow, it leaks like a sieve and becomes unusable after being left open for a few days, it does weird things with focus, its terminal messes up, its file dialogues insist on scanning every file in a directory before letting me open/save there (choosing a helper app from /usr/bin takes ages), and it's not very customisable (and the default themes are very bland-feeling). It has a sort of minimalistic charm, and a few neat features (like handling my various Xmodmap files on startup for me) but not worth ditching KDE for, I think.

Which version do you use? With which flavor? I haven't closed or rebooted my system (save for a kernel upgrade) in over a year. I leave it on 24/7 and it has never not responded. I most of the time leave Fx and Thunderbird open as well (at least at work).

I also wonder how a GUI can be slower on the same machine than another?? What do you have Gnome loading that KDE doesn't? Or are you talking about opening things, like browsers and system folders?

You obviously use way more of the system than I do but I use terminal a lot as well and I haven't noticed any "messing up" there either.

Perhaps I will sign into KDE for a while and see what shakes.

[Twey]

2.20.0.1, on Gentoo.

I also wonder how a GUI can be slower on the same machine than another?? What do you have Gnome loading that KDE doesn't? Or are you talking about opening things, like browsers and system folders?

Menus sometimes take a few seconds to appear; hover/click effects usually lag noticeably just a little behind the mouse. If I'm doing other things, sometimes text does the same when I'm typing.

You obviously use way more of the system than I do but I use terminal a lot as well and I haven't noticed any "messing up" there either.

It's mostly with ncurses apps. If I minimise the terminal then restore it, the ncurses window will be blank or incorrectly sized until I do a ctrl-L to manually refresh.