Hi, Seeing the recent thread on KBear's unfortunate effect on the system tray, which I, too, witness, and having just been in the market for a suitable FTP GUI, I figured I'd ask here for recommendations. I found gFTP and it's acceptable, though a bit flaky (I found an RPM for version 2.0.16 though the gFTP Web site indicates version 2.0.18 is available in a release candidate form). When I searched for gFTP RPMs at http://rpm.pbone.net/, I was surprised to get hits not only for gFTP itself, but also for something called "ROX Filer." So I figured maybe this ROX thing incorporates gFTP. I installed it (ROX), but there's no sign of FTP support in its GUI or in its documentation. It's an odd, and possibly interesting, piece of software in its own right, but not immediately useful to me. So... What FTP GUIs do any of you recommend? Thanks. Randall Schulz
Jay, On Saturday 01 January 2005 10:00, Richard Bos wrote:
Op zaterdag 1 januari 2005 18:26, schreef Randall R Schulz:
So... What FTP GUIs do any of you recommend?
Did you try konqueror already?
OK... Requirements... Two-pane operation. Can Konqueror do that?
Richard Bos
Randall Schulz
Richardd, On Saturday 01 January 2005 10:08, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Jay,
Sorry. I was talking to Jay on the phone while I composed that message!
On Saturday 01 January 2005 10:00, Richard Bos wrote:
Op zaterdag 1 januari 2005 18:26, schreef Randall R Schulz:
So... What FTP GUIs do any of you recommend?
Did you try konqueror already?
OK... Requirements... Two-pane operation. Can Konqueror do that?
Hmmm... I guess it can. Perhaps I didn't have to go looking, after all. Thanks.
Richard Bos
Randall Schulz
Try Krusader, Two pane and works nicely. On Saturday: January 01, 2005 01:16 pm, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Richardd,
On Saturday 01 January 2005 10:08, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Jay,
Sorry. I was talking to Jay on the phone while I composed that message!
On Saturday 01 January 2005 10:00, Richard Bos wrote:
Op zaterdag 1 januari 2005 18:26, schreef Randall R Schulz:
So... What FTP GUIs do any of you recommend?
Did you try konqueror already?
OK... Requirements... Two-pane operation. Can Konqueror do that?
Hmmm... I guess it can. Perhaps I didn't have to go looking, after all.
Thanks.
Richard Bos
Randall Schulz
-- Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Life is a fuzzy set Foundation for Chemistry Stochastic and multivariant http://www.geocities.com/FoundationForChemistry
Stephen, On Saturday 01 January 2005 10:27, Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. wrote:
Try Krusader, Two pane and works nicely.
OK. I'll check it out. Odd that even though it's installed (krusader-1.40-suse91) it appears not to have an entry anywhere in the KDE menus.
Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.
Randall Schulz
If you compiel the source code, as I just did for version 1.51 this morning, the installation puts it in /opt/kde3 tree. I aded an icon to the panel bu Add/Special Button/Non-KDE Application. On Saturday: January 01, 2005 01:32 pm, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Stephen,
On Saturday 01 January 2005 10:27, Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. wrote:
Try Krusader, Two pane and works nicely.
OK. I'll check it out.
Odd that even though it's installed (krusader-1.40-suse91) it appears not to have an entry anywhere in the KDE menus.
Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.
Randall Schulz
-- Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Life is a fuzzy set Foundation for Chemistry Stochastic and multivariant http://www.geocities.com/FoundationForChemistry
On Sat, 2005-01-01 at 10:16 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Richardd,
On Saturday 01 January 2005 10:08, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Jay,
Sorry. I was talking to Jay on the phone while I composed that message!
On Saturday 01 January 2005 10:00, Richard Bos wrote:
Op zaterdag 1 januari 2005 18:26, schreef Randall R Schulz:
So... What FTP GUIs do any of you recommend?
Did you try konqueror already?
OK... Requirements... Two-pane operation. Can Konqueror do that?
Hmmm... I guess it can. Perhaps I didn't have to go looking, after all.
Thanks.
GUI FTP clients ? IgooFTPPro is very nice. See it at http://www.iglooftp.com/unix/ gFTP is another one, at http://gftp.seul.org/ KBEAR has this URL, http://kbear.sourceforge.net/ Then there is AxY FTP at http://www.wxftp.seul.org/ Also, there is the not so GUI like VFTP, seen at http://www.ayukov.com/nftp/screenshots/index.html cftp also, at http://ftp.giga.or.at/pub/nih/cftp/ And of course, the swiss army knife. http://mc.linuxinside.com/cgi-bin/dir.cgi Dee 01-01-2005
Dee, On Saturday 01 January 2005 10:34, W.D.McKinney wrote:
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GUI FTP clients ?
IgooFTPPro is very nice. See it at http://www.iglooftp.com/unix/
Nice. Polished. I like that. I may just spring for it ($30) after trying it in evaluation mode a bit.
gFTP is another one, at http://gftp.seul.org/ KBEAR has this URL, http://kbear.sourceforge.net/
These were already mentioned in my original post.
Then there is AxY FTP at http://www.wxftp.seul.org/
Also, there is the not so GUI like VFTP, seen at http://www.ayukov.com/nftp/screenshots/index.html
cftp also, at http://ftp.giga.or.at/pub/nih/cftp/
Reading between the lines, I gather this is not really a GUI, but rather a curses-style character interface. Am I right?
And of course, the swiss army knife. http://mc.linuxinside.com/cgi-bin/dir.cgi
The shell and CLI-based utilities are my Swiss Army Knife. E.g., I generally do site mirroring with "wget". It's just that sometimes a GUI interface to FTP is more appropriate to the task and I like to have something available (in my Windows days, I used FTP Voyager for these purposes).
Dee 01-01-2005
Thanks for the tips. Randall Schulz
On Sat, 2005-01-01 at 11:04 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Dee,
On Saturday 01 January 2005 10:34, W.D.McKinney wrote:
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GUI FTP clients ?
IgooFTPPro is very nice. See it at http://www.iglooftp.com/unix/
Nice. Polished. I like that. I may just spring for it ($30) after trying it in evaluation mode a bit.
Yes, it's been my favorite also.
gFTP is another one, at http://gftp.seul.org/ KBEAR has this URL, http://kbear.sourceforge.net/
These were already mentioned in my original post.
Whoops, my bad.
Then there is AxY FTP at http://www.wxftp.seul.org/
Also, there is the not so GUI like VFTP, seen at http://www.ayukov.com/nftp/screenshots/index.html
cftp also, at http://ftp.giga.or.at/pub/nih/cftp/
Reading between the lines, I gather this is not really a GUI, but rather a curses-style character interface. Am I right?
Yes, you are correct.
And of course, the swiss army knife. http://mc.linuxinside.com/cgi-bin/dir.cgi
The shell and CLI-based utilities are my Swiss Army Knife. E.g., I generally do site mirroring with "wget".
It's just that sometimes a GUI interface to FTP is more appropriate to the task and I like to have something available (in my Windows days, I used FTP Voyager for these purposes).
Yes, and for remote management of servers, sometimes I use mc to get files in ftp mode as it works well for many needs. Hope I helped. Dee
On Saturday 01 January 2005 14:04, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Dee,
On Saturday 01 January 2005 10:34, W.D.McKinney wrote:
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GUI FTP clients ?
IgooFTPPro is very nice. See it at http://www.iglooftp.com/unix/
Nice. Polished. I like that. I may just spring for it ($30) after trying it in evaluation mode a bit.
I love Igloo FTPPro for a couple of years now. I use it to maintain a couple of web sites. Everything is there right before your eyes to compare and change. IMHO well worth the money. Bob S.
B. Stia wrote:
On Saturday 01 January 2005 14:04, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Dee,
On Saturday 01 January 2005 10:34, W.D.McKinney wrote:
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GUI FTP clients ?
IgooFTPPro is very nice. See it at http://www.iglooftp.com/unix/
Nice. Polished. I like that. I may just spring for it ($30) after trying it in evaluation mode a bit.
I love Igloo FTPPro for a couple of years now. I use it to maintain a couple of web sites. Everything is there right before your eyes to compare and change. IMHO well worth the money.
Bob S.
There are so many to choose from, you can pretend to be Emelda Marcos choosing which pairs of shoes to wear today. Apart from others I saw mentioned, FireFTP extension to firefox, jFTP, ncftp ......., but that is the beauty of Linux. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and Keen Flyer =====ALMOST ALL LINUX USED HERE, Solaris 10 SPARC is just for play=====
On Saturday 01 Jan 2005 18:08 pm, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Jay,
On Saturday 01 January 2005 10:00, Richard Bos wrote:
Op zaterdag 1 januari 2005 18:26, schreef Randall R Schulz:
So... What FTP GUIs do any of you recommend?
Did you try konqueror already?
OK... Requirements... Two-pane operation. Can Konqueror do that?
Check out the top two options on the window menu...
Richard Bos
Randall Schulz
-- "I see your Schwartz is as big as mine" -Dark Helmet
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I use it in two tab operation. works great... copy/cut n paste etc... just put your ftp location in the address bar... Pagan On Saturday 01 January 2005 12:08, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Jay,
On Saturday 01 January 2005 10:00, Richard Bos wrote:
Op zaterdag 1 januari 2005 18:26, schreef Randall R Schulz:
So... What FTP GUIs do any of you recommend?
Did you try konqueror already?
OK... Requirements... Two-pane operation. Can Konqueror do that?
Richard Bos
Randall Schulz
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James, On Saturday 01 January 2005 14:33, James Knott wrote:
Randall R Schulz wrote:
OK... Requirements... Two-pane operation. Can Konqueror do that?
Yes. At the menu bar, click on "Window". You'll see the split view options.
Yeah. We're way past that already. In fact, I answered that exact post myself only minutes later stating that I'd discovered the answer. RRS
Randall R Schulz wrote:
James,
On Saturday 01 January 2005 14:33, James Knott wrote:
Randall R Schulz wrote:
OK... Requirements... Two-pane operation. Can Konqueror do that?
Yes. At the menu bar, click on "Window". You'll see the split view options.
Yeah. We're way past that already. In fact, I answered that exact post myself only minutes later stating that I'd discovered the answer.
That's the problem with mail lists or news groups. You don't see later messages, until after you've read and responded to the original. :-)
Darnit, I sent it email instead of to the list.. Ok, here goes to the list. Sorry Randall. Randall R Schulz wrote:
James,
On Saturday 01 January 2005 14:33, James Knott wrote:
Randall R Schulz wrote:
OK... Requirements... Two-pane operation. Can Konqueror do that?
Yes. At the menu bar, click on "Window". You'll see the split view options.
Yeah. We're way past that already. In fact, I answered that exact post myself only minutes later stating that I'd discovered the answer
Have you tried the fish protocol with Konqueror? fish://rshulz@rshulz.example.com:[port wherever ssh is if not 22 (I use 3918...keeps out the bots)] Encrypted. Secure. Drool Proof. -- BMO
Daniel, On Saturday 01 January 2005 15:06, Daniel Podgurski wrote:
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Have you tried the fish protocol with Konqueror?
No, but as a Pisces, I guess it should be second nature.
fish://rshulz@rshulz.example.com:[port wherever ssh is if not 22 (I use 3918...keeps out the bots)]
Encrypted. Secure. Drool Proof.
Though apparently the drool can dissolve away the 'c' in my name... I'll check it out. Thanks.
-- BMO
RRS
Randall R Schulz wrote:
Hi,
Seeing the recent thread on KBear's unfortunate effect on the system tray, which I, too, witness, and having just been in the market for a suitable FTP GUI, I figured I'd ask here for recommendations.
[snip] gFTP has always worked solidly for me whereas kbear has not. Another newish one is kftpgrabber, so it sits nicely with kde. This one can do ssl-encrypted ftp which gFTP can't manage (though gFTP will do ssh stuff). :) Fish
IglooFTP is indeed a nice program. Have you tried Kasablanca (I think that's the name)? alfredo On Sat, 2005-01-01 at 19:13 +0000, Mark Crean wrote:
Randall R Schulz wrote:
Hi,
Seeing the recent thread on KBear's unfortunate effect on the system tray, which I, too, witness, and having just been in the market for a suitable FTP GUI, I figured I'd ask here for recommendations.
[snip]
gFTP has always worked solidly for me whereas kbear has not. Another newish one is kftpgrabber, so it sits nicely with kde. This one can do ssl-encrypted ftp which gFTP can't manage (though gFTP will do ssh stuff).
:)
Fish
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