> What are you using?
i don't have gnome, but you could try to use midnight commander - it's 
capable of doing ftp transfers; it's small, quick... 
(pkgsrc/sysutils/mc) i use it sometimes when it's not very comfortable 
to use command line... and it works even in text mode...

regards,
lubos

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Mgr. Lubos Vrbka

Center for Complex Molecular Systems and Biomolecules
J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Prague, Czech Republic

http://www.jh-inst.cas.cz/~vrbka
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