linuxmint/Cinnamon — Issue #83: A few good points about the menu
Author: clefebvre
Created: 2012-01-03 00:19:17+00:00
State: open

Taken from the blog (Dave's comment):

"How is the search menu not clearing when the menu is closed an improvement?

The only time I might need a search to be remembered is if I accidentally closed the menu mid-search or chose the wrong search result. This happens very rarely, if at all.

On the other hand I don’t need the search result remembered if I choose the correct search result. This happens over 99.9% of the time.

These days I launch everything via search. This means that every single time I open the menu the first thing I have to do is delete the previous search term.

Another inefficiency in the menu search is the first result not automatically being highlighted. This has irked me about the mintMenu for years and it is a shame to see this behaviour transitioning to the Cinnamon menu.

Also, if you press enter after entering a search term without selecting a search result first, pressing the “down” key selects the first menu category and clears the search bar rather than highlighting the first search result."