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applications: don't clear list on Enter

Pedro Sader Azevedo requested to merge pesader/gnome-control-center:2098-fix-application-search-enter into main

Currently, when the user presses Enter, the first search results is selected and the list is cleared. This can be a bit disorienting (e.g. the row of the selected app may not show

Currently, hitting Enter upon searching an app activates the top result in the list, clears the search text, and scrolls the full list back to the top. This can be a bit disorienting, because it is possible that the activated result isn't visible at the top of the list (since it is sorted alphabetically).

To solve that, simply don't clear the list when Enter is hit by the user. Here's how it behaves now:

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Fixes #2098 (closed)

Closes #2098 (closed)

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