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[Stefano Verzegnassi <stefano92.100@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, it is. By default, an app can only access its own folder (for data it's usually $HOME/.local/share/<app_id>).
An app can set an additional set of location where it wants to have read and/or write access: for gallery-app it's user's Pictures folder, for docviewer-app it's user's Documents folder.
Third party apps that requires access to more locations on the file system will require a manual review while uploading in the store, core applications need to discuss about their needs with the security team.

We (docviewer-app team) could decide to read the whole file system, as filemanager-app or terminal-app do. But that wouldn't fit with the goals of the app.
It's a design issue, more than a engineering one, and we would need to do a lot of additional work because the platform *properly* force to respect some security rules.

You can find further information here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/Specifications/ApplicationConfinement

To be fair I think you spotted a lack of features  that would be nice to take care of.
IMHO the project that could satisfy this need is the filemanager-app, which operates in the typical scenario where this need gets 'disclosed' (i.e. advanced user that want to access to some system data - the file manager is the only user friendly solution that can do that).

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1437641

Title:
  support opening documents from folders other than ~Dokuments

Status in Document Viewer application for Ubuntu devices:
  Incomplete
Status in File Manager application for Ubuntu devices:
  New

Bug description:
  I wanted to view some config files but it only worked once I had copied them to my documents folder.
  I am using  version 0.3.92 on my bq Aquaris 4.5.

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