I just dist-upgraded a fresh install of etch (installed with the desktop environment task) to lenny, installed filezilla on it, and still cannot reproduce your problem: drag and drop just works, I can edit the file in gedit.
$ dpkg -l | egrep 'filezilla|gedit|wx' ii filezilla 3.0.11.1-1 Port of the famous Win32 graphical FTP clien ii filezilla-common 3.0.11.1-1 Architecture independent files for filezilla ii filezilla-locales 3.0.11.1-1 Translations of filezilla ii gedit 2.22.3-1 official text editor of the GNOME desktop en ii gedit-common 2.22.3-1 official text editor of the GNOME desktop en ii libwxbase2.6-0 2.6.3.2.2-3 wxBase library (runtime) - non-GUI support c ii libwxbase2.8-0 2.8.7.1-1.1 wxBase library (runtime) - non-GUI support c ii libwxgtk2.6-0 2.6.3.2.2-3 wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit (GT ii libwxgtk2.8-0 2.8.7.1-1.1 wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit (GT Do you have those packages installed, with these versions? -- Adrien Cunin aka Adri2000
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