Why is SFTP not supported in KDE4's "Network Folders"?

[Nikos Chantziaras]

I'm using KDE 4.3.2 on Gentoo AMD64.

In Dolphin, I click "Places->Network".  There, I start the "Add Network 
Folder" wizard.  It gives me a choice between "WebFolder (webdav)", 
"FTP", "Microsoft(R) Windows(R) network drive" and "Secure shell (ssh)".

There's no "SFTP" option, so "ssh" seems the correct choice.  However, 
when I go ahead and fill all the info, "fish://" is used instead of 
"sftp://".  Trying to manually change it into "sftp://" results in an 
error message: "Creating symlinks is not supported with protocol remote."

Is the omission of SFTP on purpose or just an oversight?  "fish" is not 
a substitute for SFTP because it tried to login to the remote server 
using a password while I'm using SSH public/private keys.

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