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Is it possible to edit something so that you can browse the whole filesystem with the default file manager? Would be really nice

or atleast show file extention. I understand one can use xterm to do all their file managing but a more feature loaded file manager wouldn't hurt.

and let videoplayer to use /home/user folder .....

To browse the whole filesystem, either you write "file:///" in your browser url bar and press return (and you're read-only);
or, you install a more complete file manager like emelfm2 (get it frome qole's repository, see http://www.qole.org, or from my site http://www.debernardis.it/downloads/...optified01.deb ), and if you start from your xterm after becoming root, you can destroy your root filesystem as you please !

I know all these possibilities (except for emelfm2) but they won't help if an application uses the browse feature of the file manager. So if I have extracted something to a place which is invisible for the file manager then I cannot access it in other application till I move it to another place which can be annoying.
That is the reason for my question. Is there no .ini file or something which should prevent "dumb" users from accessing the file system and which can be turned off?

The idea is to use the MyDocs for things like extracting etc. and leave the hidden-area '/', '/home/user' for system files.

That being said, unfortunately, there isn't a way to extend the unwieldy default File-Manager.

For past reference, ot's currently not planned: https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=430

What a pity! For a "mobile computer" the user should have the possibility to see and edit everything he wants (maybe not as default but optional in a menu).

The vast majority of users do not care about the system and hidden files. And for the users who are interested in the system files, the command-line offers everything. Even if the file-manager did allow complete access, using it for managing system-files would be difficult on a small screen for a majority of cases. This would be a power-use-case where the command-line would be best suited.

I find the browser file-manager quite useful for browsing the system.

i can pretend for a while that I agree that hiding system files from the users is somewhat ok. But why hide the extensions?

This is not Windows, and Windows does have an awful lot of problems because of the default behavior of hiding extensions (trojan horses, "lost files" and so on).