elementary / elementary/applications-menu
Show suggestions for search
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Description
### Problem
There's currently no way to know that things like settings and actions can be searched without just trying it
### Proposal
We should do a few things here to make search more learnable:
- [ ] By default, place focus somewhere else so you can see placeholder text
- [ ] Switch to the search view whenever the search entry is focused
- [ ] When the search entry is blank, show a placeholder that lists the types of things that can be searched (apps, settings, actions)
### Prior Art (Optional)
Siri has a view where it lists a bunch of things you can search for with examples of the query in quotes, and clicking them executes that search:
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