This is completely asinine but here I go anyway… So literally the ONLY thing that “bothers” me about UM is the way MATE-Menu handles searching for a program and launching it. If you use Whisker Menu in XFCE and the start menu in Windows, you can hit super_l, start typing the name of the program you want to run, and hit enter to launch the program. MATE-menu (and it’s parent, mintmenu) requires you to press the up arrow to highlight the program you want, sometimes this means going up through a list to get to the program you want.
My question: does anyone know if there is a way to make the menu highlight the first option in the search results list? I know I’m only talking about a couple extra keystrokes at most, but the action of typing a query and hitting enter has become such a muscle-memory function that I would love the ability to make it work that way in UM.