not landing in SFTP home directory

["Alan Gibson" <alan gibson gmail com>]

hello all. first post, good to be here. gnome, and by extension
nautilus, are excellent apps.

now to the problem:

when i access an SFTP server added via "Connect to Server..." the
default directory is the root of the server, not my home directory.
the same operation with `sftp` lands me in my home directory. this
behavior makes "connect to server" unusable for many users.

this was filed as a bug, along with another problem, here:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=332738. that bug was filed
against 2.12.X on 2006-02-27 and this is still the behavior in 2.14.1.

anyone have any idea of the status of this, or if it this behavior is
going to stay this way?

thanks much,
alan