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

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 10/29/2009 09:52 PM, Paul Hartman wrote:
> 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

This is unrelated to Network Folders.  SFTP does work in general, just 
*not* in Network Folders, which is the problem my post is about :)

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