Jan,

Another way to break out of the Hildon File Manager "wall" consists of defining symbolic links, in ~/MyDocs, to the parts of the File System that you wish to make visible -- I do this for "/" (Root) and "/home/user" (Home). But to do this, ~/MyDocs needs to be on an ext2 (or ext3) partition... and this conversion is only for advanced users.

The symbolic links create in effect circular references in the File System that make Tracker go into a scanning loop... but that can be solved easily by adding the added paths to the exclude list of Tracker. Recursive searches via "find" do work fine, though! But you have to be alert for other apps such as Tracker that may be affected similarly.

Anyway, I wish that Hildon File Manager were developed instead to provide functionality that for naive users would offer a "walled" view of the file system but as an advance preferences option would provide a full view of the file system. This is a very old problem dating back to the days of the 770 Tablet and all previous versions of Maemo!

--denis