Mint Menu Search Functionality Focus Option

[Rob]

Mint Menu Search runs the search dialog by default upon simply typing in the search box and then pressing 'Enter'. I would like to have an option to run the top item instead. As it is now, if you search for and run an application often, it displays highlighted white upon typing in the search. My brain registers it as 'highlighted', so I press 'Enter'. Of course, the search dialog then pops up and I have to click start and try again. Even though it is highlighted, it isn't truly highlighted until I up/down arrow to the item and then hit 'Enter'. This is a phenomenon that happens to me often. It would be nice to have a preference to give focus to the top item so I could just start typing and if the top application is the one I want I can simply press 'Enter'. I use the search more for this purpose than installing an application or searching for a file.