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

[Paul Hartman]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc at arcor.de> wrote:
> 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.


According to this bug sftp should work:

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164149
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