Test of gnome-blog applet.
I recently switched from Fedora to Ubuntu. Ubuntu comes with Gnome 2.10. Gnome is a straight forward easy to use desktop environment. Not a lot of configuration options are available. However, it 'just works'. You can find a screenshot here. You will see this post being composed and a window browsing our Charter FTP space that hosts this website. Notice the icon in the upper left of the screenshot that says Charter. When I click on it I am able to browse the FTP site as if I were browsing my own harddrive. Files can be dragged and dropped to and from the webspace. No special ftp software is required. It can't get any easier than this.